[MEncoder-users] Converting ape and flac files to mp3

[Ilya Zakharevich]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was NOT [per weedlist] sent to
Andrew Berg 
<mencoder-users at mplayerhq.hu>], who wrote in article <4A3EB8FC.30001 at gmail.com>:
> wine mac.exe file.ape file.wav -d
> lame -b 320 file.wav file.mp3
> (the Monkey's audio tool doesn't seem to support writing to stdout)

I use

  mac $1.ape - -d | lame --preset standard -h - $2.mp3

(change `--preset standard' to `-b 320' if needed) - peppered with
needed calls to `nice'.

Hope this helps,
Ilya