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Topic: foobar 0.9 APE cue sheet support (Read 2324 times) previous topic - next topic
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foobar 0.9 APE cue sheet support

I just switched from 0.8.3 to 0.9 and it's anything but enjoyable.  After fixing a crash issue with kernal streaming and running sound hardware accelerated games (which did not happen with 0.8.3) by settling with directsound, my recent problem has to do with some albums on my playlist.  A few of them are in .ape form with a cue sheet that marks the tracks.  This used to work out fine but in 0.9 I get the error saying that:

Unable to open item for playback (Error parsing cuesheet: expected WAVE, MP3 or AIFF, got : "ape" (line 3)):

of course this can be fixed by modifying the cue sheet and converting the file to a WAV or something, but it's kind of annoying to lose a feature that it once had.

foobar 0.9 APE cue sheet support

Reply #1 –
You don't need to convert the file at all.  A line like:

Code: [Select]
FILE "Album.ape" WAVE


is perfectly valid, and foobar2000 will read the APE file just fine.  (Same is true for Wavpack, FLAC, or most anything else)

edit: changed example slightly