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 "id": "monkey-s-audio-file",
 "name": "Monkey's Audio File",
 "category": "audio",
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   "audio/x-ape"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1086"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q105854755"
  ],
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    "hex": "4d414320",
    "notes": "Monkey's Audio variant 1"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Monkey's Audio variant 1",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "4d414320{48}(e803|d007|b80b|a00f|8813)"
     }
    ]
   },
   {
    "name": "Monkey's Audio variant 2",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "4d414320{2}(e803|d007|b80b|a00f|8813)"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
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 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio file format created by Matt Ashland.",
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   "name": "FFmpeg",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "AIMP 3.5",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111665632",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Awave Studio",
   "url": "https://www.fmjsoft.com/awavestudio.html#main",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "EasyTAG",
   "url": "https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Ex Falso",
   "url": "https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "EZ CD Audio Converter",
   "url": "https://www.poikosoft.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "JetAudio",
   "url": "http://www.jetaudio.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Monkey's Audio",
   "url": "https://monkeysaudio.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "3-clause BSD License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "mutagen",
   "url": "https://mutagen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "PhotoRec",
   "url": "http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Puddletag",
   "url": "http://docs.puddletag.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q117725",
   "url": "https://picard.musicbrainz.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q300915",
   "url": "https://www.foobar2000.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "freeware"
  },
  {
   "name": "Strawberry",
   "url": "https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "thousand tunes player",
   "url": "http://music.taihe.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "Xilisoft Video Converter 3",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122229367",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
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 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Monkey's_Audio",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1086",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1086",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q105854755",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105854755",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "conversions": [
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   "to": "flac-free-lossless-audio-codec-1-2-1",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.ape out.flac",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "waveform-audio",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.ape out.wav",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-1-2-audio-layer-3",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.ape out.mp3",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "ogg",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.ape out.ogg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-4-part-14",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.ape out.mp4",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "matroska-1-4",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.ape out.mkv",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webm",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.ape out.webm",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  }
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 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}