What is APE?

Monkey's Audio (APE) is used by Windows users mostly. It is a free lossless audio compression format with a highly competitive compression algorithm. Although software is available for Linux, Monkey's Audio is not as popular among this operating system's users. Decompression speeds of Monkey's Audio is too slow compared to other lossless audio codecs.

Monkey's Audio successfully combines traditional lossless compression tactics (linear prediction and channel coupling) and a simple Neural network. To store the output values of its prediction step it uses Range coding, which is modified to work well with more or less continuous values.

Monkey's Audio's main competitor is FLAC, which has more features than Monkey's Audio (streaming support, for example) and hardware support to its advantage, though its efficiency in compression is not as great.

Monkey's Audio is released under a "custom" license. That means that you can do pretty much anything with the source code, just don't forget to ask the author for permission.

more information - www.monkeysaudio.com

Total Audio Converter supports the following conversions with APE format files:

APE to MP3 APE to WMA APE to WAV APE to OGG APE to FLAC APE to AAC APE to MP4 APE to MPC APE to APE (change bitrate or frequency) APL to MP3 APL to WMA APL to WAV APL to OGG APL to FLAC APL to AAC APL to MP4 APL to MPC APL to APE

MP3 to APE WMA to APE WAV to APE OGG to APE RA to APE CDA to APE FLAC to APE APL to APE AAC to APE MPC to APE MPP to APE MP4 to APE OFR to APE SPX to APE TTA to APE WV to APE MOD to APE