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[Muen]

  Hello, I recently have started using ape and I love it, however I do have a few problems. I can get the files to play fine in MC, but I only get one "song", that is the whole cd.
  Is there any way to make MC display the individual tracks ala, MP3cue for WinAMP!?

Thanks in advance!

Oh yeah I love Media Center!!!!!

[Matt]

Are you ripping a CD to one big APE + CUE?

If so, use MakeAPL (included with Monkey's Audio) to make some .apl files to link into that big .ape.  Then, just use the APL files in MC.

If you're not ripping to one big file, then give some more details on what's happening.

Thanks!

[xen-uno]

Matt,

By your post it appears that MC can rip multiple tracks off a CD as one now (an ability I've trumpeted for that has been lacking in MJ). Is this correct?

10^-27

[Doof]

No. MC cannot. And in case you've missed it, I've been hinting about this a lot lately. I don't know why I choose now, when MC is almost out the door to start harping about it, but that's me for you...

EAC is probably the app being used. I know it's what I use, and I actually don't know of any others. But then, I haven't looked for any others, either.

[Muen]

  You are correct I have been making one .ape and cue, the ape plays fine, and your suggestion to make .apl's worked and that seems the way to go.
  The problem I encounter now however is the apl's are made in the same folder as the ape and cue, named correctly but dont seem to want to play, the error is make sure that the path in the library is pointing to the right place etc.. and I am pretty sure that it is as I have removed the apls and ape and added them again just to make sure.

[xen-uno]

> I've been hinting about this a lot lately

Me too (though not lately), starting a year ago.

I also use EAC almost exclusively for ripping/encoding. It's multi track rips into one file work great.

10^-27

[Doof]

I started asking for this at the end of the MJ8 beta days, but I kind of slacked in my beta tester duties this time around.

Maybe if we all really make a lot of noise about it for 10?


Muen> You can open the APL files with Notepad to see if the paths are correct.

Or is it the CUE sheet you can check?

I know you can edit the CUE sheet and then regenerate the APL's.

But if you rename the APE file, or move it to another directory you may have to recreate the APL's. You could edit the path in the CUE sheet to just be the name of the APE file, instead of the whole path, and then as long as you keep the APL's in the same folder as the APE, you should be fine. Not sure if that's what's causing your problem or not...

[xen-uno]

Yes, it may be time for another "Dear John" post.

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[zevele10]

As JimH says many times ,i am ...
But i ask since ages MJ or MC to rip as EAC does : convertion in the back since you rip .
Just put 50 cds in a row and go to bed , you just really do not care if Lame slow or not.
I got cdinfos before starting to rip- from anywhere . Mainly RealOne.
Right now i use dBpowerAmp-This program does not encode in the back yet- But i like the idea of only ONE person putting out very good software as it is the case with dBpowerAmp.
I do think i will buy his 'PowerPack'.
Not that i really need it ,but just only to support him

[bspachman]

  You are correct I have been making one .ape and cue, the ape plays fine, and your suggestion to make .apl's worked and that seems the way to go.
  The problem I encounter now however is the apl's are made in the same folder as the ape and cue, named correctly but dont seem to want to play, the error is make sure that the path in the library is pointing to the right place etc.. and I am pretty sure that it is as I have removed the apls and ape and added them again just to make sure.

I hit this problem the first time I used this method. You have to:

1) Use EAC to rip to a WAV & CUE
2) Compress the WAV to an APE file
3) Edit the CUE sheet so the path at the top is correct--usually you just need to change the ".wav" extension to ".ape"
4) Finally, drop the CUE sheet on the MakeAPL app.

You can then import the APLs into MC9 and they should work fine. It took me a couple of times to figure out step #3.

Good luck!
Brad

[Doof]

You can skip the editting the CUE sheet step if you configure EAC to do the APE compression at the same time as the rip.