Freeware Descriptions:

Monkey’s Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or lqt that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey’s Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music. That means it always sounds perfect – exactly the same as the original. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space. (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ for your music)

Here is complete features (taken from authors site):

The other great thing is that you can always decompress your Monkey´s Audio files back to the exact, original files. That way, you´ll never have to recopy your CD collection to switch formats, and you´ll always be able to recreate the original music CD if something ever happens to yours.

Features:

  • Efficient (fast and great compression) – Monkey´s Audio is highly optimized and highly efficient
  • Perfect sound – absolutely no quality loss, meaning it sounds perfect and decompresses perfect (it´s lossless!)
  • Media Center™, Winamp™, and more support – supported by many popular players and rippers
  • Easy – the Windows environment interface is both powerful and easy to use
  • Free – Monkey’s Audio is completely free!
  • Error detection – Monkey’s Audio incorporates redundant CRC’s to ensure proper decompression of data (errors never go unnoticed)
  • Tagging support – Monkey’s Audio uses its own extremely flexible APE Tags so you can easily manage and catalogue your Monkey’s Audio collection.
  • External coder support - you can use Monkey´s Audio as a front-end for all of your encoding needs
  • Freely available source code, simple SDK and non-restrictive licensing - other developers can easily use Monkey´s Audio in their own programs — and there are no evil restrictive licensing agreements

What’s New in version 4.02:

  • New: Includes Directshow filter for decoding APE files in any DirectShow compatible player like Windows Media Player, Zoom, etc.
  • Fixed: Corrupt APE files could cause decoder crashes in rare cases.
  • Changed: Updated builder that gets better compression, making for a smaller download.

Monkeys Audio 4.02 Screenshot

File Size / OS:

  • 1.01 MB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista

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