Monkey's Audio

Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio data compression method, which allows the reduction of music files with lossless compression and a faithful restoration of the original file. The compressed file contains created by means of cyclic redundancy check checksum of the original file; However, this is possible only error detection and no error correction. The files have the extension. Ape. As a metadata system APEv2 tags are used, their precursors has been developed for this format.

Properties

The Monkey's audio format has a compared to other lossless compression techniques good compression rate and is supported by many software players from the factory or can be integrated as an extension. However, a relatively high computational effort for the decompression of the played content falls in, which is one reason for so far few hardware implementations is probably examples of which include newer Cowon players are.

Applications

From the original developer only a Windows version is supported. Meanwhile, however, ports exist for Linux, and the platform-independent programming language Java. For Mac OS X, there are two freeware player programs, Cog and " tool player " who can still play other audio formats except Monkey's Audio. In addition, several freeware converter, such as Max, XLD or XACT dominate this format.