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Clementine (1.2.3) on Ubuntu (16.04) Gnome (3.18) - doesn't play .ape files.

Before the update (from Ubuntu Gnome 15.10) it also wasn't working, but it was telling that there is a problem with gstreamer (I was reinstalling all gstreamer plugins without any result).

Now - it doesn't show any information - sometimes it even starts to play first few seconds of piece.

Sebastian Gramsz
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  • It seems to be an old bug with gstreamer in ubuntu: https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/3216#issuecomment-30408434 - also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg/+bug/1071263 –  Jun 03 '17 at 09:30
  • Still having this problem with Lubuntu 17.10 and Celementine 1.3.1 – sunyata Jan 29 '18 at 18:50

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This seems related to an old bug that is not fixed involving a certain version of gstreamer (0.10) used by Clementine - also linked here. (I see that ape files can be played with Exaile 4.0.0 beta, which uses GStreamer 1.8.3.)

The most simple solution is to use another music player (Audacious, Deadbeef, etc). Most Linux audio players are not affected by this problem..

If you must use Clementine, converting to another (possibly lossless) format makes sense too, as ape is a lossless format. (If you have large collections in ape format with sub-folders, you may like this answer, where I suggest replacing avconv with ffmpeg).

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You can install flacon for .ape files

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flacon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flacon
gogoigo
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  • `Flacon is an open source application, written in C++ and built by using the Qt libraries, that enables the users to extract individual tracks from big audio files`. - Please give more details on how that would fix the problem of Clementine not playing ape files. - You mean we should convert the files? –  Jun 03 '17 at 09:29