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[Osho]

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could please tell me how can I convert an entire library of APE to FLAC format? Ideally, I would like a automated process rather than a manual one per each track.

Thanks much,
Osho

[Alex B]

Use MC11.1 with scthom's FLAC plugins (encoder & decoder). MC has a file converter (select all > Library Tools > Convert Format...). As always, backup the library and the files you are going change first.

Do you need to know something else?

[Osho]

Use MC11.1 with scthom's FLAC plugins (encoder & decoder). MC has a file converter (select all > Library Tools > Convert Format...). As always, backup the library and the files you are going change first.

Do you need to know something else?

Nope, that sounds great!! Thanks a lot.

Osho

[hit_ny]

I'd read this before embarking on such a project.

Ideally you need a way to verify that the conversion went through ok, as in the wavs produced by the previous APE and the new FLAC are identical.

[enigman]

I was the original poster of that warning thread 

After some detailed manually analysis (using FooBar2000 across a bunch of random files and listening to a lot my library), I discovered that the problem was a lot less severe than I had originally thought.  There were only 2 or 3 albums that got messed up, due to a hardware issue when I was ripping while also converting.  This was then compounded by buggy audio driver that was causing skips in the S/PDIF output, leading me to suspect that the files themselves were messed up.

All is well now, and while I may have liked some sort of verification step to confirm that things went 100% according to plan, the end result was still quite positive.  FLAC is definitely the way to go - no disrespect to the monkey - in the abstract it's a great format, but it's just not as widely supported.