Monkey's audio
| Monkey's audio | |
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| developer | Matthew T. Ashland |
| Current version |
5.46 ( June 26, 2020 ) |
| operating system | platform independent |
| category | Encoder |
| License | Monkey's Audio Source Code License Agreement |
| German speaking | No |
| www.monkeysaudio.com | |
Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio data compression method . The files created use the filename extension .ape . As a metadata system comes APE tag is used, which has been specially developed for Monkey's Audio.
Although the development is open source , Monkeys's Audio is under its own, restrictive license, which is why it is classified as proprietary software .
properties
The Monkey's audio format has a higher compression rate than other lossless compression methods and is supported as standard by numerous software players or can be integrated as an extension . However, there is a comparatively high computational effort for the decompression . The compressed file contains checksums of the original file created by means of a cyclic redundancy check , with which error detection is possible , but no correction is possible.
Applications
Only one version of Windows is maintained by the original developer . In the meantime, however, there are ports for Linux and implementations in the platform-independent programming language Java . For Mac OS X there are two freeware players, Cog and ToolPlayer , which can play other audio formats in addition to Monkey's Audio . In addition, several freeware converters , for example Max, XLD or xAct, can use this format.
See also
Audio format for a list of other procedures
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ monkeysaudio.com .
- ↑ Discussion about inclusion in the Linux distribution Gentoo (English).