Where to get Monkey Audio codec in Debian

If you are looking for non-free media codec, try https://debian.pkgs.org/12/multimedia-main-amd64/  I managed to obtain a copy of Monday Audio Codec from there.

 

sudo dpkg   -i    libmac10_10.16-dmo1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg   -i   monkeys-audio_10.16-dmo1_amd64.deb

Bash Script for converting APE to FLAC

This is a little script I use for batch converting ape files in a folder into flac.

 

#!/bin/bash
for f in *.ape
do
    mac "$f"  "${f%.*ape}.wav" -d && flac --best "${f%.*ape}.wav" && rm "${f%.*ape}.wav"
done
 

PowerShell Script for batch WAV/APE to FLAC

This is a script I use for converting any WAV/APE files in a folder to FLAC.

$files = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path . -filter *.ape
foreach ($file in $files) {
    $path = Split-Path -Path $file.FullName
    $new_name = [IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($file) + ".wav"
  
    $new_name = Join-Path $path $new_name
  
    mac $file.FullName $new_name -d
}

$files = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path . -filter *.wav
foreach ($file in $files) {
    flac --best $file.FullName
}