Topic: Help with APE files - update: VICTORY!

[Quemaqua]

Okay.  So I have Monkey's Audio installed, I have foobar2000, and I have an .APE/.CUE lossless version of the Okami soundtrack (which is five disks).  What I'd *like* to do is get all 5 disks onto one disk, as MP3s.  I managed to somehow get it going this morning for the first disk, which I brought to work, but I'm at a fucking loss now.  I can't seem to duplicate the results with the next disk.  I managed to edit the .CUE file and associate it with the .APE file and get foobar to convert it to MP3s, but now I can't seem to get the .CUE to associate with the .APE in foobar for the next disk.  And I have no idea why.

Kinda' new to all this.  Anybody know what the hell I'm doing wrong?

[Cobra951]

I'm only replying because no one else has.  I'm not ignoring you.  I just don't know what the problem is, since you seem to have the whole process in hand.  Can you move the ape files out of the ISOs, and just transcode them directly?

Edit:  Oh, wait.  Maybe not ISOs.  The .CUE is a template for the resulting CDs, right?  If so, never mind.

[Quemaqua]

Well, it's just APE files.  There's a .TXT, a .CUE, and an .APE in each disk's folder.  But they're just folders, not images.  So I need to get the .CUE files properly associated with the audio so that foobar can break them apart, otherwise I just get one giant-ass MP3.  Just can't seem to figure out what I did differently the first time since I got that disk done okay.

[Cobra951]

Right.  I didn't pay enough attention to your first post.  Can you re-do the first disk from scratch?  I'm wondering if something got messed up with the software in the interim.  Is it possible that the other .CUEs are somehow messed up?

[Quemaqua]

Well, I give up.  I have no idea what I did the first time but I can't even duplicate the results again with the first disk.  I guess I'm screwed.  Supposedly there's a plugin for Nero that will allow you to burn .APEs like .ISOs, so I guess I'll have to settle for five disks of soundtrack until I can get my hands on the *actual* real disks and then rip them.  Just haven't been able to find anyplace that sells it thus far.  Animenation has a preorder thing up, though, so I guess they'll be getting it soon.

EDIT - I even extracted it to both .WAV and .MP3 since those seem to be valid .CUE extensions, but foobar wouldn't work with either of them.  Doesn't give an option to load an attached .CUE for those filetypes.  Bah.  How the hell did it recognize the .APE and .CUE the first time?  I don't get it!!

[Xessive]

This might seem like a primitive way about it, but if all you can get is a giant MP3, why don't you make it then slice it into the individual tracks yourself using an audio editor? If I couldn't convert the original individual tracks that's how I'd do it.

I recommend Adobe Audition (formerly known as Cool Edit Pro 2).

[Quemaqua]

Because I can't be bothered to do that to a file with 59 tracks.

[idolminds]

This might be helpful.

[Quemaqua]

Thanks.  I tried all that, nothing works.  It's for an older version of foobar to the utils don't work and the menus are all different.  I got a few ideas from it, but they all failed miserably.  Fucking .CUE file just always loads the damn thing in a single block no matter what I do to it.

[idolminds]

Does it work in Nero or other burning program? APE is lossless, so you could burn the CDs then rip them. Kind of a waste, but better than nothing.

[Quemaqua]

Yeah, I might do that.  There's a plugin for using .APE with Nero... and there's a few other freeware burners that have native support, I think.  But I'll only do that as a last resort.  Hopefully the OST is available soon and I can just rip from that.

[Xessive]

Because I can't be bothered to do that to a file with 59 tracks.

Ah ok, that would be tedious.

[Quemaqua]

VICTORY!  I figured the motherfucker out.  I had to load my .CUE and then ADD the fucking file to it, not the other way around.  Makes no sense to me.  You can load the file and have an embedded .CUE, why the fuck shouldn't it recognize that?  I didn't even know I could do it the other way around, and it wouldn't have seemed logical to try if I had.  But when I loaded the .CUE I got blank nothing because it didn't auto-load the corresponding sound file, but if I added it manually (which had yielded no results in reverse), boom.  There are my tracks.

Son of a bitch.  Well, at least I can have it all on CD for work tomorrow!  Yay!

[scottws]

Sorry I wasn't around the boards to help you with this.

[Quemaqua]

It's cool.  I was wondering what happened to you.  =)  But I learned a bit, at least, so yay for that.