APE + CUE Knife
3rd Edition, β2 Test

Chen Qingcan
2005 Autumn, Nanhai, China

Download #1
With Windows Media Encoder，9.86 MB.
(English edition coming soon...)

Download #2
      Without Windows Media Encoder，440 kB.
      Users who does not plan to convert to the WMA format,
      or has already installed the encoder may download this.
      (English edition coming soon...)

Features

Slice packaged APE file to separate ones according to CUE file, and cut them down to other formats.
By now the supported formats include MP3, WMA, APE, and WAV. MP3 and WMA files can preserve tag information such as title, artist, etc.
Advanced users may customize their favorite converting commands for MP3, WMA and APE files (detailed descrition is shown below).

How to Use

Download
Decompression
Double click
Setting dialog
Work in progress

Notes

According to the official web site of Monkey's Audio and LAME, both MAC.EXE and LAME.EXE can be used by other software freely. Microsoft Media Encoder is downloadable from Microsoft download site. There is no copyright problems. This software is under GNU Public License (GPL), which should be shipped together.

The converting commands is put in separate batch files. Advanced users may edit them freely.

Format	Batch File Name	Default Compression Arguments
MP3 (Variable Bit Rate)	+ape+cue\WAVE-MP3-VBR.bat	LAME --preset extreme
MP3 (Constant Bit Rate 320kb/s)	+ape+cue\WAVE-MP3-CBR320.bat	LAME --preset insane
WMA (Variable Bit Rate)	+ape+cue\WAVE-WMA-VBR.bat	WMCmd -a_codec WMA9PRO -a_mode 2
WMA (Lostless Compression)	+ape+cue\WAVE-WMA-LOSTLESS.bat	WMCmd -a_codec WMA9LSL -a_mode 2
APE (Lostless Compression)	+ape+cue\WAVE-APE.bat	MAC -c2000

This is exactly a Coding For Fun software made in my spare time. There might be still bugs. Welcome to logon the forum of Audio100.com, or send me e-mail (chqc (a) 21cn.com).

Bugs

MP3 files preserve title, artist, album and track number information while WMA files only the first two. I may find ways to correct it if I have enough spare time.

History

3rd Edition β2 Test
- To be translated...
3rd Edition β1 Test
- To be translated...
2nd Edition
- To be translated...
1st Edition
- To be translated...
Initial Test
- To be translated...

Thanks SourceForge.net for providing host for this software