APE Audio File Format Description:

Monkey’s Audio is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless compression format, Monkey’s Audio does not remove information from the audio stream, like lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do.

Like other methods of compression, the main advantage of using Monkey’s Audio lies in a reduction of bandwidth and/or a reduction in storage requirements. A digital recording (such as a CD) encoded to Monkey’s Audio format can later be decompressed into an identical copy of the original audio data. Like the Apple Lossless format, files encoded to Monkey’s Audio are typically reduced to about half of the original size.

Monkey’s Audio is a proprietary software, it is often too slow to decode on portable audio devices, and it has limited/problematic support on software platforms other than Windows. There are alternatives that provide the user with more freedom and official support for more platforms, such as the FLAC and ALAC formats.

Monkey’s Audio files use the filename extension .ape for audio and .apl for track metadata info.

Audio Transcoder supports the following conversions with APE format files:

• APE to AAC
• APE to M4A
• APE to M4B
• APE to MP4
• APE to FLAC

• APE to MP2
• APE to MP3
• APE to MPC
• APE to OGG
• APE to WAV
• APE to WMA
• APE to SPX

• AAC to APE
• AC3 to APE
• AIFF to APE
• FLAC to APE
• M4A to APE
• MP+ to APE
• MP1 to APE
• MP2 to APE
• MP3 to APE
• MP4 to APE
• MPC to APE
• MPP to APE
• OFR to APE
• OFS to APE
• OGG to APE
• SPX to APE
• TTA to APE
• WAV to APE
• WMA to APE
• WV to APE

Note that Audio Transcoder is not only a great Audio Converter. It is all-in-one solution to convert any audio files - WAV, WMA, OGG,MP3,MP4, AAC and many others, rip Audio CD's, edit metadata (audio tags) .