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Everyone is talking about whether or not they like or choose to use .ape; they are missing the point. A lot of CD images I download are already in .ape + .cue format. So I have no choice but to use .ape. I would say it is maybe 15 -20 percent of the time. The entire CD is one giant .ape file, and I want to pull ou the individual tracks and convert them to .mp3. Nero has a .ape plugin but of course that is for burning. To convert them to .mp3, you have to jump through a lot of hoops. If Daemon Tools would let me mount a .cue that refers to a .ape CDImage, I would then have the CD mounted and could then use a separate ripper program to convert to the format of my choice, be it .ogg or .mp3 or .wav... Again my point is, like it or not, good or evil, .ape is fairly popular out there in p2p land. I didn't like it at first but now I admit that it is in fact lossless and then if you use dBpowerAmp, everyone then has their choice to convert to whatever format you choose and at whatever bit rate you like. I wonder if the Nero .ape 3rd party plugin or the dBpowerAmp plugin source is available and usable to simplify adding such a feature. Really some kind of flexible plugin architecture is desirable, don't .cue files spec such plugability? It seems to work well for dBpowerAmp. I mean its not impossible that if Daemon Tools had a plugin architecture then the .ape people could just handle their own plugin that would solve the above. And others too.