Monkey's Audio
| Filename extension |
.ape |
|---|---|
| Standard | www |
| Open format? | No |
| Monkey's Audio | |
|---|---|
Screenshot of Monkey's Audio software on Windows successfully verifying .ape files | |
| Developer(s) | Matthew T. Ashland |
| Initial release | 2000 |
| Stable release | 10.96
/ 11 February 2025 |
| Type | Audio compression |
| License | The 3-Clause BSD Licence |
| Website | www.monkeysaudio.com |
Monkey's Audio is an algorithm and file format for lossless audio data compression. Lossless data compression does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as Advanced Audio Coding, MP3, Vorbis, and Opus. Similar to other lossless audio codecs, files encoded to Monkey's Audio are typically reduced to about half of the original size, with data transfer time and storage requirements being reduced accordingly.