In recent years, especially since the launch of macOS High Sierra, we have seen how Apple has fulfilled some of the rumors that circulated about iTunes, rumors They pointed out that the company could begin to dismember the application. And I say in part because although it has not separated some of its functions, it has eliminated them completely.
Since September 2017, the version of iTunes available on macOS does not offer us access to the iOS app store. In addition, the alternative version that it offered us will not be compatible with macOS Mojave, as we informed you a few days ago. The audio file compatibility is to feed you apart.
iTunes has never been compatible with the FLAC or APE format, two audio formats that do not use a compression algorithm similar to MP3, an algorithm that reduces both the size and the audio quality of the files. Due to these limitations, many users are forced to use applications that allow them to convert these types of files to MP3, the most widely used music format in the world, even if it entails a loss of audio quality.
APE to MP3 is a free application that allows us to convert audio files in APE format to MP3, allowing us to adjust the values that best suit our needs at the time. It is compatible with variable and fixed bitrate and offers us a very fast conversion time, since an 8-minute song in APE format can be converted in just 10 seconds, if we set the minimum conversion values.
The operation of the application is very simple, since we just have to open the application and set the values we want to do it. In addition, it allows us to do batch conversion instead of doing it individually like many applications of this type.