New profile: Monkey's Audio encoding

[apaige]

There's a problem with the PTS WAV file: the encoder segfaults because of its RIFF chunk (WAV metadata). FLAC and oggenc also report a warning about it, but are able to ignore it.

I'd really like a Monkey's Audio profile because it's a very good lossless codec and features excellent 64-bit MMX ASM routines. Michael, I know you're going to scream at me (or maybe just in your head), but would it be possible for the final WAV file to be a vanilla WAV file, with no metadata or any other additions/transformations?
Edit: a simple way of doing that, is to encode the WAV file to FLAC, and decode that FLAC file back to WAV.

diff -Naur a/pts/test-profiles/encode-ape.xml b/pts/test-profiles/encode-ape.xml
--- a/pts/test-profiles/encode-ape.xml	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ b/pts/test-profiles/encode-ape.xml	2008-06-01 12:13:49.133115401 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<PhoronixTestSuite>
+	<TestProfile>
+		<Version>0.1.0</Version>
+		<TestType>Processor</TestType>
+		<SoftwareType>Utility</SoftwareType>
+		<License>FREE</License>
+		<Status>VERIFIED</Status>
+		<Maintainer>apaige</Maintainer>
+		<DownloadSize>0.4</DownloadSize>
+		<EnvironmentSize>5</EnvironmentSize>
+	</TestProfile>
+	<TestInformation>
+		<Title>Monkey's Audio Encoding</Title>
+		<Version>3.99u4b5</Version>
+		<SubTitle>78MB WAV File To APE</SubTitle>
+		<Executable>encode-ape</Executable>
+		<TimesToRun>3</TimesToRun>
+		<ResultScale>Seconds</ResultScale>
+		<Proportion>LIB</Proportion>
+		<Description>This test times how long it takes to encode a sample WAV file to APE format.</Description>
+        <ExternalDependencies>build-utilities</ExternalDependencies>
+	</TestInformation>
+</PhoronixTestSuite>
diff -Naur a/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/downloads.xml b/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/downloads.xml
--- a/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/downloads.xml	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ b/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/downloads.xml	2008-06-01 12:13:33.530376922 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<PhoronixTestSuite>
+	<Downloads>
+		<Package>
+			<URL>http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/support/formats/ape/unix/3.99-u4-b5/s4/mac-3.99-u4-b5-s4.tar.gz</URL>
+			<MD5>5de801a6f4d4b356b4675f5a1f586737</MD5>
+		</Package>
+		<Package>
+			<URL>http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/benchmark-files/pts-trondheim-wav-2.tar.gz, http://www.phoronix.net/downloads/phoronix-test-suite/benchmark-files/pts-trondheim-wav-2.tar.gz</URL>
+			<MD5>3ae2f03b722fb2b8805ea0cdb8ca60e2</MD5>
+			<DownloadTo>SHARED</DownloadTo>
+		</Package>
+	</Downloads>
+</PhoronixTestSuite>
diff -Naur a/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/install.sh b/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/install.sh
--- a/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/install.sh	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ b/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/install.sh	2008-06-01 12:15:36.670717177 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ ! -f ../pts-shared/pts-trondheim-2.wav ]
+  then
+     tar -xvf ../pts-shared/pts-trondheim-wav-2.tar.gz -C ../pts-shared/
+fi
+
+THIS_DIR=$(pwd)
+mkdir $THIS_DIR/ape_
+
+tar -xvf mac-3.99-u4-b5-s4.tar.gz
+cd mac-3.99-u4-b5-s4/
+CXXFLAGS="-DSHNTOOL" ./configure --prefix=$THIS_DIR/ape_
+make -j $NUM_CPU_JOBS
+make install
+cd ..
+rm -rf mac-3.99-u4-b5-s4/
+
+echo "#!/bin/sh
+./ape_/bin/mac ../pts-shared/pts-trondheim-2.wav /dev/null -c4000 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+exit 0" > ape_process
+chmod +x ape_process
+
+echo "#!/bin/sh
+/usr/bin/time -f \"WAV To APE Encode Time: %e Seconds\" ./ape_process 2>&1" > encode-ape
+chmod +x encode-ape
diff -Naur a/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/parse-results.php b/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/parse-results.php
--- a/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/parse-results.php	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ b/pts/test-resources/encode-ape/parse-results.php	2008-06-01 12:15:46.484832096 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?php
+
+$BENCHMARK_RESULTS = substr($argv[1], strrpos($argv[1], "WAV To APE Encode Time:") + 23);
+echo trim(substr($BENCHMARK_RESULTS, 0, strpos($BENCHMARK_RESULTS, "Seconds")));
+?>

In the mean time, I guess I'll make a WavPack profile.

[Michael]

In git, thanks. The WAV file is now also corrected.

[Michael]

apaige: Is there a new version of Monkey audio for Linux anywhere? I see there's a new version and a Windows binary, but I can't find an updated source package.

[KDesk]

It's good to have options to choose, but MAC isn't free/open software, and having alternatives like FLAC or WavPack...

FLAC has lots of advantages, it's open source, encoding/decoding is vary fast, it's multiplataform, the CPU usage is not big when playing files, etc. The only advantage that MAC has is that the size of the files is ~5% smaller.

Not many programs support MAC, and much less hardware, Also the MAC license is a bit wierd http://www.monkeysaudio.com/license.html

I only use MAC to transform the files to FLAC The latest version ported to GNU/Linux that I know is the same, 3.99-u4-b5