Does Roon Support APE compressed files

[Mike_O_Neill]

.ape is a common format , does Roon support it

I just found a missing disc in an otherwise Flac set

[Mike_O_Neill]

looked in the KB seems not to , am I right

I have dug further , another few ape albums are missing so it seems I answered my own question

[evand]

.ape is a common format

Many years ago it was, these days it’s rare to encounter anything in APE unless you encoded it yourself.

[Mike_O_Neill]

Perhaps I’m a Matt Ashland fan😛

It’s only a few albums , they are fixed now

[Carl]

Good to read you are now good … if want to read more on Roon and APE checkout this topic.

Monkey's Audio APE Support

@music, @GusGranite, @walcir, @cgw: I understand the hybrid aspect of Wavpack (if you use it), but I don’t understand why anyone uses Monkey’s Audio anymore. FLAC clearly won, due to its openness and great implementation. Just trying to get an understanding of why people have these formats. Is it just legacy and you don’t have a good way to convert, or is there something more? Nothing wrong with the former, but I want to make sure I’m not missing something here.

[Mike_O_Neill]

Thanks for the link

I see ape quite often but nearly always as big files with Cues

I always split them

I hadn’t noticed until I wanted a specific album, it wasn’t there !

JRiver plays then natively, as it would since their CTO wrote the ape format

It also converts to flac happily