APE files

[kad]

How can I play an APE file? Can it be converted to an MP3?

[stevie21]

An ape file is a compressed wav file so isn't a lossy format like mp3.  You could either download <a href="http://www.monkeysaudio.com/">Monkey's Audio</a> and use this to decompress the files to wav, or as part of this prog's installation process you'd be asked if you wanted to install a plugin which will allow <a href="http://download.nullsof t.com/winamp/client/winamp505_lite.exe">WinAmp</a> to play then without decompressing them.

[stevie21]

Oops!   Try these links if they're easier:

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp505_lite.exe

If you install WinAmp first, then MA will detect this and offer to install the plugins so that you can listen to the files directly.

If< /STRONG> you're interested, there are also plugins available so that Nero recognises these files as audio so that you can burn them as an audio CD without decompressing them first.