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If you ever encounter one of those old APE files, you should consider either recoding it to FLAC or simply cut it up and put it into a lossy OGG container. Here I will go through the command-line steps to do that last option.

Say we start off with these files:

First let's get the needed tools:

Now, decode the file into WAV, and start hacking it up with the CUE. First decoding the APE file:

Then let's hack it up into pieces:

Now we have a collection of WAV files named split-track01.wav split-track02.wav etc. etc. We can simply recode them to OGG using the following:

Done and done! Enjoy.