[SOLVED] how to play .ape file

I installed the Serviio 1.5.2.

I have some .ape sound files. I wonder whether Serviio can play those files ?

Please help.

Thanks.

[atc98092]

It isn't a matter of Serviio "playing" them, but your DLNA player supporting the format. I did a quick search to see of FFMPEG supports .ape, and it appears it does. So, if your player doesn't support ape then your files need transcoding.

Frankly, if they won't play native I wouldn't bother with transcoding, as you'll likely lose the high quality of the lossless original. I could be mistaken, and FFMPEG may be able to convert your files to a format your player supports without losing quality. I don't know enough about the whole transcoding process to be sure. If you can't play them without transcoding, you might as well convert them to something that your player supports. I'm sure converting to MP3 will cause a loss of quality. I just don't know how much.

Thanks for the reply.
My DLNA player is oppo bdp-105, which can play the .ape file natively. Because it plays the .ape file when I save them to a USB disk.

Does it mean that I should use some specific profile for oppo bdp-105, instead of the generic profile ?

Any advise ?

[DenyAll]

ape is supported - see http://www.serviio.org/features.
Transcoding to another lossless type (eg. LPCM) can be done so that it does not result in loss of quality. Transcoding to a lossy type such as MP3 will result in the loss of some quality (similar to if you had encoded to MP3 in the first place).
Just because it works via USB doesn't mean it will work via DLNA. Do you see mp3 files in the same folder?

ape is supported - see http://www.serviio.org/features.
Transcoding to another lossless type (eg. LPCM) can be done so that it does not result in loss of quality. Transcoding to a lossy type such as MP3 will result in the loss of some quality (similar to if you had encoded to MP3 in the first place).
Just because it works via USB doesn't mean it will work via DLNA. Do you see mp3 files in the same folder?

I see the mp3 files in the same folder and oppo player plays them correctly from serviio.

Any instructions on how to do the transcoding?

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[jhb50]

Use the Denon AVR profile

Thanks.

I created a new profile by copying the Denon VAR profile, Serviio works perfectly for the ape file.

This is what it looks like:
<Profile id="oppo-105" name="Oppo BDP-105" extendsProfileId="1">
<Detection>
<UPnPSearch>
<FriendlyName>OPPO BDP-105</FriendlyName>
<Manufacturer>OPPO</Manufacturer>
</UPnPSearch>
</Detection>
<ContentDirectoryDefinitionFilter>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.definition.SimpleContainerContentDirectoryDefinitionFilter</ContentDirectoryDefinitionFilter>
<Transcoding>
<Audio targetContainer="lpcm">
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="ogg" />
<Matches container="wavpack" />
<Matches container="mpc" />
<Matches container="ape" />
</Audio>
</Transcoding>
</Profile>

[atc98092]

Make sure you save a copy of your new profile. Any time you upgrade Serviio your profile file is replaced. While it's backed up, it's simpler to make sure you keep a working copy.