I'm not sure about the ID3v2 tags, actually. I'll have to check my EAC configuration when I get home. I want to say yes, though. Is that bad?
Should I just be ripping to wav with EAC, and then use MAC to create the APE? I've been letting EAC do it for me, but now I'm wondering if that's such a good idea.
I just downloaded MAC 3.97F and let it verify the two files. The APE that won't play at all receives a message of "Error: Invalid Input File", and I just noticed that it's file size is only 192 MB, so I'm assuming this one is pretty well screwed.
As for the second file (the one that would play but the APL's wouldn't import), I recreated the APL's and they still won't import. MAC reported the file as OK, and it plays just fine in MJ.
If I decompress it and then recompress it with MAC 3.97F, will that get rid of the ID3v2 tags if they're there and replace them with the APEtag or whatever it's called?