Playing Monkey's Audio in Linux Mint 10 from downloaded *.ape and *.cue files.

Thanks to the Hoekstra (UK) website for making available the converter download
Monkey's Audio Converter as well as the baby steps (see footnote) how to install mac and then use it to
convert *.ape files so you can listen to your music in a media player like VLC. You need to have g++
and make installed to compile the uncompressed mac-3.99-u4-b6.tar.gz file download. You also need
LAME (MP3) and FLAC to be installed, your choice which or both with Mint's Package Manager.
I already had these Monkey's Audio files, BorodinString2.ape (205.9MB) and Borodin.cue (1.1
KB), on my Desktop before discovering Monkey's Audio Converter solution at Hoekstra (UK).
daibak@HPPAVxz148 ~ $ cd Desktop
daibak@HPPAVxz148 ~/Desktop $ ls
BorodinString2.ape BorodinString2.cue
First convert your .ape file to WAVE format
daibak@HPPAVxz148 ~/Desktop $ mac BorodinString2.ape BorodinString2.wav -d
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 3.99) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Decompressing...
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 642.3 seconds total)
Success...
daibak@HPPAVxz148 ~/Desktop $ ls
BorodinString2.ape
BorodinString2.cue
BorodinString2.wav
Now convert your .wav output file to MP3 format
daibak@HPPAVxz148 ~/Desktop $ lame BorodinString2.wav BorodinString2.mp3
LAME 3.98.4 32bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
CPU features: MMX (ASM used), SSE (ASM used), SSE2
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz
Encoding BorodinString2.wav to BorodinString2.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) 128 kbps qval=3
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
120313/120313(100%)| 8:04/ 8:04| 12:49/ 12:49| 6.4895x| 0:00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
128.0 22.5 77.5 99.9 0.0 0.0
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: +3.1dB
Or convert your .wav output file to FLAC format
daibak@HPPAVxz148 ~/Desktop $ flac -o BorodinString2.flac BorodinString2.wav

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson

flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details.

BorodinString2.wav: wrote 232582592 bytes, ratio=0.420

daibak@HPPAVxz148 ~/Desktop $ ls
BorodinString2.ape
BorodinString2.cue
BorodinString2.flac
BorodinString2.mp3
BorodinString2.wav

Be sure to add Decompress mode -d highlighted above in CL in green but missing at Hoekstra (UK)!

daibak June 02, 2011