Clementine doesn't play APE files

Clementine (1.2.3) on Ubuntu (16.04) Gnome (3.18) - doesn't play .ape files.

Before the update (from Ubuntu Gnome 15.10) it also wasn't working, but it was telling that there is a problem with gstreamer (I was reinstalling all gstreamer plugins without any result).

Now - it doesn't show any information - sometimes it even starts to play first few seconds of piece.

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This seems related to an old bug that is not fixed involving a certain version of gstreamer (0.10) used by Clementine - also linked here. (I see that ape files can be played with Exaile 4.0.0 beta, which uses GStreamer 1.8.3.)

The most simple solution is to use another music player (Audacious, Deadbeef, etc). Most Linux audio players are not affected by this problem..

If you must use Clementine, converting to another (possibly lossless) format makes sense too, as ape is a lossless format. (If you have large collections in ape format with sub-folders, you may like this answer, where I suggest replacing avconv with ffmpeg).

You can install flacon for .ape files

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flacon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flacon

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