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APE (Audio)
| File extension | .ape |
| Category | Audio File |
| Description | The APE format is a popular audio format which uses lossless compression and a very effective compression algorithm. Many prefer to use Monkey Audio's main competitor FLAC which offers more features and hardware support. Most modern media players do not support the APE format and a number of users look to convert into more freely available formats such as MP3 and FLAC. |
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| Technical Details | Monkey's Audio does not discard data during the process of encoding the file. APE adopts file compression to reduce file transfer time, bandwidth and storage with no loss in quality with the ape file sounding exactly the same as the original digital recording (for example, CD). APE offers better compression rates than FLAC and has multithreading/multicore support in built. |
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| Developed by | Monkeys Audio |
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FLAC (Audio)
| File extension | .flac |
| Category | Audio File |
| Description | Free Lossless Audio Codec, or FLAC for short, is an audio compression technique. It is a lossless compression type meaning that the compression takes place without data being discarded. FLAC is an open source codec. FLAC is a format that is recommended to those backing up a CD collection because the sound quality will remain high, whereas MP3 compression will result in a deterioration compared to the original. |
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| Technical Details | Using FLAC to compress an audio file to approximately 50% of its original size. The main benefits of a FLAC file in addition to it being lossless is that it can be used for streaming, and decoding is fast, allowing for real time decoding to take place. A FLAC file also contains several data integrity checks in the header file. The metadata associated with the audio has been future proofed also to allow new fields to be defined without impacting existing decoders. |
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| Developed by | Xiph.Org Foundation |
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Convert APE file
Using Zamzar, it is possible to convert APE files to a variety of other formats
- ape to aac (Advanced Audio Coding File)
- ape to ac3 (AC3 Audio File)
- ape to flac (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
- ape to m4a (Compressed video file)
- ape to mp3 (Compressed audio file)
- ape to mp4 (MPEG-4 Video File)
- ape to ogg (Ogg Vorbis Compressed Audio File)
- ape to wav (Windows audio file)
- ape to wma (Windows Media Audio)