APE file is first of all a lossless compression format. I would like to talk about a more professional method of compressing MP3 because APE is lossless compression, which is equivalent to WinRAR compression. First, we need to restore APE to WAV sound source file. You can choose Monkey's. The latest version of Audio is 4.06. Open Monkey's Audio, click Options → Processing → mode on the main interface of the software, select full, click OK to return to the main interface of the software, press Ctrl+2, switch to Decompress (decompression mode), and then click Add Files on the main interface to add the required Decompress the APE file and click Decompress. At this time, the software will restore the APE to the WAV file before compression. This file is the sound source file in the CD. Generally speaking, APE is divided into whole track and split track. You can decompress WAV according to the above method. As for compressing MP3, we will mention it next. Now let’s talk about how to make the whole track APE into MP3. Generally, there will be two files when downloaded. One is the APE. This file contains usually all the songs of the entire album. The other is the CUE file. This file mainly contains album song information, artist information, etc. and the time of each song. For example, the total playing time of all songs in an album is 60 minutes and contains 10 songs. We can directly use the player to play APE. Play but this time you have to listen to the last song in order from the first song until the end of playback. If we want to listen to one of these 10 songs directly, it will be more troublesome. So the role of the CUE file is In order to locate the time of each song in the entire album, according to the formal rules, when we put a CD into the computer to create APE, the production of the CUE file is still very particular.

If the gap time between each song needs to be accurate, you must also set the offset value of the CD-ROM drive. Let's introduce how to accurately compress the entire track APE into MP3. Use Notepad to use the CUE file in the downloaded entire track APE file. When you open it, you will see content like this PERFORMER "金沙"

TITLE "Xingyue Myth"

REM COMMENT

FILE "CDImage. ape" WAVE

TRACK 01 AUDIO

TITLE "The Myth of Stars and Moon"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 00:00 :00

TRACK 02 AUDIO

TITLE "Your Mouth"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 04:11: 02

TRACK 03 AUDIO

TITLE "Acacia Dirt"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 06:47:32< /p>

TRACK 04 AUDIO

TITLE "I know we will have no results"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 10:57 :58

TRACK 05 AUDIO

TITLE "Are you still happy, dear?"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 14: 41:00

TRACK 06 AUDIO

TITLE "I still remember your smile"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 19:03:10

TRACK 07 AUDIO

TITLE "The End of the World"

PERFORMER "Jinsha"

INDEX 01 22 :49:60

TRACK 08 AUDIO

TITLE "How are you lately"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 27: 18:04

TRACK 09 AUDIO

TITLE "Tears of the Comet"

PERFORMER "Jinsha"

INDEX 01 31:18 :44

TRACK 10 AUDIO

TITLE "The Fairy in the Painting"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 35:40: 15

TRACK 11 AUDIO

TITLE "I understand"

PERFORMER "金沙"

INDEX 01 40:30:18 The time and gap of each song are in this file. Notice that there is a line like this at the beginning of the file information: FILE "CDImage.ape" WAVE. This is to locate the corresponding APE file. Now we use the above method for this CDImage.ape file. Use Monkey's Audio software to decompress it into WAV. The sound source becomes CDImage.wav. Then open the CUE file with Notepad and change the FILE "CDImage.ape" WAVE at the beginning of the file content to FILE "CDImage.wav"

WAVE, then save it, then download and install the Exact Audio Copy software. When you open the software for the first time, there will be a setup wizard that allows you to set the corresponding driver parameter settings and compression parameter settings. After setting the wizard, we click on the EAC option in the upper left corner of the software to select compression. Option: Select Microsoft PCM Converter in the waveform format, which is WAV. Select 44.100kHZ 16-bit stereo in the sampling format, then click OK, then click the tool on the main interface of the software and select Press CUE to split the WAV file → with corrected silence gap and then select Change into the edited CUE file and decompressed WAV sound source file. Then Exact Audio Copy will separate each song in the WAV full track album according to the information in the CUE file. Now we can separate this. WAV files are compressed into MP3. For encoding and compressing MP3, the best encoder is undoubtedly lame. Here I recommend using LameXP. The latest version is 3.18. Open the software and add the split WAV to the source file. Select the sound source file in the output directory. Select the storage path of the compressed MP3 file, then click the compression option and select lame MP3 compression method. Select fixed bit rate. Select the highest quality (320kbps) in the quality/bit rate option. Then click the setting option and select the highest quality (slow) sampling rate in lame algorithm quality. Select 44.100 channel mode, select Stereo, and click Encode Now to compress the APE file into an MP3 file at the highest quality. The sound quality of the MP3 file produced in this way is relatively good. .