douwen | # 1 | 2008-11-26, 07:20 | Report

i have a lot of music file are APE/CUE format, is there a music player could play them?

jabawok | # 2 | 2008-11-26, 16:03 | Report

I would convert the ape to flac format, there is zero quality loss. I use mplayer to play my flacs, admittedly from the command line. I'm assuming there's a gui frontend for mplayer (for audio files) on maemo, I just haven't bothered finding it yet. Mplayer also has a 10-band eq, which can be handy.

Alternatively, you could convert to ogg format with some small quality loss, and use the default media player, with ogg-support installed..

There are also tools for splitting your large audio file into separate tracks using the cue file for split points. Google's your friend...

ace | # 3 | 2008-11-26, 16:09 | Report

Not that I know of.

ace | # 4 | 2008-11-26, 16:10 | Report

That's probably the best course of action. The FLAC files will be slightly larger, but they'll take less CPU to decode.

soap | # 5 | 2008-12-02, 00:25 | Report

And when he says "less" he means as a shot glass holds less than a bucket.
APE is very CPU (and thus (in this instance) battery) hungry.

Thesandlord | # 6 | 2008-12-02, 00:36 | Report

Yeah, APE is not the best for a mobile device. To much compression can be a band thing. FLAC seems to be more of a standard anyway (IMO, as I am not a audiophile).

allnameswereout | # 7 | 2008-12-02, 01:07 | Report

Encode them to MP3 VBR or OGG Vorbis -q3. You'll save diskspace and you'll save battery life at the compromise of something which ~90% of the people are not able to distinguish in a blind test (on top notch equipment) as tested by C'T.