Monkey's Audio (APE) - свободный аудиоформат для сжатия без потерь с высококонкурентными характеристиками. Monkey's Audio страдает медленной скоростью распаковки по сравнению с прочими аналогичными кодеками.

Monkey's Audio uses a combination of traditional lossless compression tactics (linear prediction and channel coupling) and a simple Neural network. To store the output values of its prediction step it uses Range coding, modified to work well with more or less continuous values.

Monkey's Audio's main competitor is FLAC, which has more features than Monkey's Audio (streaming support, for example) and hardware support to its advantage, though its efficiency in compression is not as great.

Monkey's Audio is released under a "custom" license that allows you to do pretty much anything with the source code, on the provision that you ask the author for permission.

Ссылки

• Домашняя страница Monkey's Audio
• Сравнения с Monkey's Audio
• Lossless Codec Comparison by Rjamorim
• Monkey's Audio Package for BeOS
• Configuring EAC and Monkey's Audio