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diff --git a/audio/mac/README b/audio/mac/README index d013f5dbfced..87df89945242 100644 --- a/audio/mac/README +++ b/audio/mac/README @@ -1,7 +1,14 @@ mac (Monkey's Audio Linux port) -mac is a console frontend to Monkey's Audio, able to encode and -decode APE audio files. +Monkey's Audio (aka APE) is a lossless audio compression format, +similar to FLAC. mac is a console frontend to Monkey's Audio, able to +encode and decode APE audio files. + +Note: if you just want to listen to APE files, Slackware's mplayer +and audacious can already play them. If you just want to convert them +to some other format (wav, mp3, etc), Slackware's ffmpeg can already +decode them. The only real reason to install this package is for +converting files *to* APE format. If you're building this for an old x86 CPU that doesn't support MMX, set ASM=no in the script's environment. @@ -10,3 +17,9 @@ The package is built using upstream's default optimization level, which is -O3. If you suspect this is causing problems, rebuild with FORCE_SLACK_CFLAGS=yes in the environment (this will force -O2). If this actually fixes anything, please email the maintainer with the details. + +Note: if you get "invalid input file" trying to encode a wav file, it +probably means the wav file uses floating point rather than 16-bit +integer samples. You can convert with sox: + + sox -G input.wav -b16 output.wav |