ape & shn files..

[willbis]

Hi. Im not sure if this has been asked before, but how do I play (and or burn) .ape files and shn files? thank you.

Will

[DJ Egg]

For .ape you need the Monkeys Audio package/plugin
www.monkeysaudio.com

Not sure which plugin people use for .shn but SHNAmp is probably the most popular
http://www.etree.org/shnamp.html

[willbis]

Thanks. One last question, please. Is there any specific place(folders) that I should put these? or just run the programs and put them in their own folders? Sorry ,a computer technician Im not.

Will

[DJ Egg]

I think both plugins install automatically when you run the installers.
You should see something like in_ape.dll and in_shn.dll appear in the winamp\plugins folder.
Note you can download & run the installers from any folder.

[willbis]

Thank you again. Another question, again, sorry. Will these programs also let me burn (the files) them in/on my winamp player? Thanks again. Much appreciated.

Will

[DJ Egg]

Alas, that's something I personally don't know the answer to.
(I don't use either of those two formats/plugins).

Anyone else?

[jtbse]

Originally posted by willbis
Will these programs also let me burn (the files) them in/on my winamp player?

I can verify that the shorten plugin won't burn directly. You'll have to convert the files to .wav or some other format first.

[willbis]

How would I go about converting them to a wav. file? Thanks.

[Rocker]

save yourself the trouble and get nero and use mausou's plugins for nero

http://www.bitburners.com/Nero_Audio_Plugins/

then you can burn any of these formats straight without recoding or any crap.
* MP4/AAC
* Dolby Ac3
* APE - Monkey's Audio
* Windows Media Audio WMA/ASF
* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
* MP3 - Utilizing LAME MP3
* MusePack
* OptimFROG
* OGG Vorvbis
* RealMedia / RealAudio
* Shorten (SHN)
* Speex
* WavPack

while it doesn't say nero 7 is supported, it seems to work fine for me.

or you can use the diskwriter output plug-in for winamp to make wav files

preferences(ctrl+p)-->output-->nullsoft diskwriter

just make sure you put it back to directsound when your done, or it won't make any sound and eat up all your hard drive space fast.

[willbis]

Thanks Rocker. I actually have Nero 6. I didn't know about these plug-ins. How do I download these? When I go to the audio-plug-ins to download, it takes me to the home page.

[Rocker]

http://www.cole2k.net/?display=NPI

theres a pack with the same files all packaged together i'm guessing.

sorry bout the link, it seems they've changed domain names and things got broken.

[willbis]

Rocker. Thank you very much. Its much appreciated.