ape2flac

 function apetoflac(){
 if which ffmpeg &>/dev/null; then
     COUNTER=$(find . -maxdepth $1 -iname "*.ape" | sed -n '$=')
     until [ $COUNTER -lt 0 ]; do
         export IFS=""
         APEFILE=$(find . -maxdepth $1 -iname "*.ape" | head -n 1 | sed "s/^[./]*//")
         if [ "$APEFILE" ]; then
             FLACFILE=$(echo "$APEFILE" | sed -e "s/.ape/.flac/" )
             echo "-------------------strating conversion----------------------------"
             echo $APEFILE
             echo $FLACFILE
             ffmpeg -i $APEFILE $FLACFILE &>/dev/null
             echo "Converting complete"
             rm -f $APEFILE
             export IFS=" "
             let COUNTER-=1
             echo "Only " "$COUNTER" " files left"
             notify-send "Files to be done: "  "$COUNTER"
      else
         echo "no .ape found"
         let COUNTER-=1
         export IFS=" "
      fi
    done
  else
    echo "ffmeg is not on your system. aborting."
    notify-send "ffmeg is not on your system. aborting."
 fi
 }