The most popular lossless audio formats are APE and FLAC. Generally, the size of a APE file or a FLAC file whose is several hundred millions of bytes, most of these files are compressed from a music CD, Generally there is also a CUE file together with the APE file or the FLAC file. SoftRM published several toolkits which can split or convert APE or FLAC file to MP3 file and toolkits which can burn APE or FLAC file to disc.

What is a CUE file? A CUE file, is a metadata file which describes how the tracks of a CD are laid out. CUE sheets are stored as plain text files and commonly have a ".cue" filename extension. For an audio CD, a cue sheet specifies titles and performers for the disc and its tracks as well as the names of one or more audio files to be used. Cue sheets are especially useful when burning or listening to live sets where all tracks are recorded in one file.

How to split APE + CUE file or FLAC + CUE file to separate MP3 files? There are 2 toolkits published by SoftRM (http://www.softrm.com) can do it. Ape Ripper is a tool to split a big APE file to separate MP3 files or split APE file to other format audio files including WAV, MP2, VOX, G726, G723. Like Ape Ripper, FLAC Ripper is a tool to split a big FLAC file to separate MP3 files or split FLAC file to other format audio files. For more information please visit http://www.softrm.com/english/product.htm.

How to burn APE + CUE file or FLAC + CUE file to disc? There are 2 toolkits published by SoftRM (http://www.softrm.com) can do it. Ape2CD can split a big .Ape file to some CD track files based on .Cue file and then burn them to CD. FLAC2CD can split a big .FLAC file to some CD track files based on .Cue file and then burn them to CD. For more information please visit http://www.softrm.com/english/product.htm.

If there is not a CUE file, what can I do? In some cases, the tracks of a CD are compressed to separate APE or FLAC files. If you wang to convert them to MP3 files, you can try Audio Music Batch Converter which is also a toolkit published by SoftRM (http://www.softrm.com). Audio Music Batch Converter is a convenient, powerful, and configurable application for converting among nearly all popular audio formats (APE, FLAC, MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, MP2, G721, G723, G726, VOX, GSM, U-LAW, A-LAW, DSP, ADPCM).