Split APE images into ogg files and add tags from CUE
Turning your APE whole disc into single ogg files with ID3 tags is easy and takes only a few steps. You'll need the following programs to complete this tutorial: cuetools, shntool, vorbis-tools.
aptitude install cuetools shntool vorbis-tools
First, move into the folder with the APE disc. Second, split the disc into tracks.
cuebreakpoints *.cue | shnsplit -o wav *.ape
You'll find split-track.wav files in the folder. Note: you can you change the "split-track" with the "-a" option. Next you'll encode the wav files as ogg files with a 256 bitrate.
oggenc -b 256 *.wav
Then you can remove the wav files.
rm split-track*.wav
Last you'll add the ID3 tags to the ogg files. (use code if you haven't named the ogg files something else)
cuetag *.cue split-track*.ogg
Note: don't forget to remove the unneeded ape and cue files.
Bonus
If you want to complete this task in one line of code, use the following:
cuebreakpoints *.cue | shnsplit -o wav *.ape ; oggenc -b 256 *.wav ; rm split-track*.wav ; cuetag *.cue split-track*.ogg
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