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| File extension | .APE |
| Category | Audio File |
| Description | APE audio format (also referred to as the Monkey's audio format) is a popular lossless compression format supported by various Windows-based media players. APE achieves high quality with a 50% file size reduction compared to many popular lossy formats. Meanwhile, this format allows you to create excellent copies of your CD tracks with zero detriment to sound quality. As to the downsides of this format, it poses difficulty encoding because it uses a CPU-intensive compression pattern. Another shortcoming is that it is platform-dependent and works on Windows only. |
| Associated programs | VLC media player FFMpeg |
| Developed by | Matthew T. Ashland |
| MIME type | audio/x-musepack audio/musepack |
| Useful links | Get more information about PCL at fileinfo.com APE file description in wikipedia |
| File extension | .MP3 |
| Category | Audio File |
| Description | MP3 is the most popular audio file type based on MPEG-1 Layer III compression. Its lossy algorithm was developed in 1991. MP3 codes the sound almost with the same quality, as CD (16-bit stereo), providing compression in size 1 to 10 from the original WAF or AIFF tracks. The quality of MP3 seriously depends on the bitrate. It can be 128 - 256 kbps. Higher bitrates are also supported, but they seriously increase the file size. It is supported by all modern hard- and software players. |
| Associated programs | RealOne WinAmp Windows Media Player iTunes |
| Developed by | Fraunhofer Institute |
| MIME type | audio/mpeg audio/MPA audio/mpa-robust |
| Useful links | More detailed information on MP3 files |
