What format is ape?

Ape is one of the popular digital music file formats. Unlike MP3 such lossy compression, APE is a lossless compression audio technology, that is, from the audio CD read audio data files compressed into ape format, and then the ape format of the file restore, and the restored audio files and compression before the same, without any loss. Ape's file size is about half that of a CD, and ape can save a lot of resources.

The nature of ape, in fact, is a lossless compressed audio format. The huge WAV audio files can be compressed into ape via monkey ' s audio software. Sometimes it is used as a network audio file transfer, because the compressed ape file capacity than the WAV source file smaller than half, you can save the time spent transmitting. More importantly, through the monkey ' s audio decompression after the recovery of WAV files can be done with the source files before compression exactly the same. So ape is known as "lossless audio compression format", monkey ' s audio is known as "lossless audio compression software." Unlike using specialized data compression software such as WinZip or WinRAR to compress audio files, compressed ape audio files can be played directly. Monkey's audio will install a "In_ape.dll" plug-in to the Winamp so that Winamp also has the ability to play APE files. The same foobar2000, and thousands of listening can also support the play of Ape.