Received a friend's heads-up and realized that .ape conversion to mp3 doesn't work anymore in v. 0.7.
With v. 0.6.1 I used to convert the .ape to a single long mp3 and then split it with CueSplitter: everything ran great. Now I get a mp3 which contains only rustle (same after splitting it up).
I noticed that now the long mp3 resulting from conversion is correctly tagged, while with v. 0.6.1 it was "unknown", but you can't hear anything but rustling...
I tried with just one .ape file (322 MB, some 50 minutes or so). The same file was converted perfectly by v. 0.6.1. Don't know how long it was my friend's one, I can ask.
I'm using the version I downloaded from the main site (sorry, dumb enough not to know exactly what you mean by "architecture"...).
It worked fine, both for me and my friend (his .ape was 480 MB and he's on PPC too). I'm listening to converted mp3s with Play
I just noticed another thing: the first time (when it didn't work), I'm pretty sure that in the File Conversion window I chose File > Open and could select the .ape file. With build r1143 I can select only the .cue file this way, while the .ape is greyed). I can add the .ape clicking on the + button. Hope this may help.