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.

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