Monkey's Audio

File Format
Name	Monkey's Audio
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music Monkey's Audio
Extension(s)	.ape
PRONOM	fmt/1086

Description

Monkey's Audio is an audio file format offering lossless compression. It uses the file extension .ape for compressed audio files and .apl for metadata.

See also APE tag.

Information

• Monkey's Audio SDK (including source code)
• FFmpeg Monkey's Audio lossless audio decoder

Software

Encoding or transcoding

• Monkey's Audio
• FFmpeg

Playback

• APE Player (Windows)
• DSP-Worx directshow filter
• RadLight directshow filter

Sample files

• dexvert samples — audio/monkeysAudio