[Update] .ape won't play in Foobar

[Shapeshifter]

I just set myself up with an installation of your beautiful program and I have to say, it is very promising.

However, the major part of my music consists of large single .ape files with a .cue file in which track and timing information is contained. I have adapted the music filter to accept .ape and .cue and Subsonic seems to read them succesfully, that is, I can add them to my playlist and "play" them. Foobar, which is the music player I am using, doesn't want to play the stream though and gives the following error:

Could not read info (Unsupported format or corrupted file) from: [my server]

Foobar is correctly installed and can interpret .cue files to play .ape files.

I have also tried to transcode the .ape files from .ape to .mp3 (by installing LAME, enabling the transcoder for .ape -> .mp3 and enabling it in my user page) but this also doesn't work.

This problem also occurs while trying seperate .flac files (with or without transcoding)

I'm a bit lost at what the problem could be. I figure I must be doing something utterly wrong, but what...

By the way, does Subsonic support .cue files (in combination with single .ape files at all?

As a last tip, I would like a button with which you can add your whole music library (in the left panel) to a playlist at once, so you don't have to go through all the seperate files... This function could also come in handy for inserting complete albums at once.

[Shapeshifter]

Ok, so today I spend some extra time on this matter. Even though I had LAME properly installed I downloaded the transcoder pack from the subsonic site and it worked wonders.

At least .ape en .flac files will now play in Foobar, so that's a start. However I am still not able to play individual tracks in large single .ape files.

I think this should be supported, because there are a lot of people who listen to lossless music in this manner. I will post this in the request forum, if anyone knows if it's possible to let subsonic interpret .cue files please let me know.

[Shapeshifter]

Since most of my music is in .ape format I'm still pursuing options to play them via subsonic, because I like this software so much.

Today I stumbled upon CueProc. This commandline encoder can convert .cue files (that are linked to .ape files) into single tracks.

I installed the encoder according to the manual and tried to use it, but I failed.

What I've tried so far:

1. Unpack the files into the transcode directry of subsonic (C:\subsonic\transcode)
2. Under "Transcode" I created another transcoder routine:

| cue > mp3 | cue | mp3 | cueproc -c lame %s | lame -b %b - - |

I used cueproc instead of cueenc (which I should use according to the manual), because cueenc is not a .exe file and cueproc is, so I figured that should be the encoder.

3. Enable cue > mp3 in "Players" screen.
4. Add .cue file to playlist and play it.

And this is what will happen:

Foobar (the player I use) will receive the link from Subsonic and start to open it. After about 2 seconds I can see that it reads it as a .mp3 file of 128 kbit/s, but just for a split second before it jumps to the next file.

It seems to me that Foobar recognizes the file somehow, because it tells me that it is a .mp3 file. However, I do not get a list of mp3's (which I'd like) but still a single file. Also this file will "play" for just a nanosecond before it skips to the next one.

My knowledge of encoders and commandlines is very limited, so I can't figure out what the problem is at the moment. If anybody would be kind enough to try this approach with his or her knowlegde I would greatly appreciate it. For now I'll have to resort to the few .mp3 files I possess and trying to figure out what went wrong.