Monkey's Audio

Writable

audio

Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio file format created by Matt Ashland.

Identify it

Extensions	`.ape`
MIME types	`audio/x-ape`
Signatures	`4d414320` at byte 0 (Monkey's Audio variant 1)
PRONOM	`fmt/1086`
Wikidata	`Q105854755`

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Open it

Monkey's AudioOpen sourcereads and writes · 3-clause BSD License
EasyTAGOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
Ex FalsoOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
FFmpegOpen sourcereads · LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later
FFmpeg (WebAssembly)Open sourcereads · GPL-2.0-or-later
mutagenOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
PuddletagOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Q117725Open sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
Awave Studioreads and writes
thousand tunes playerreads and writes · proprietary license
AIMP 3.5reads
EZ CD Audio Converterreads
JetAudioreads
Q300915reads · freeware
Strawberryreads
Xilisoft Video Converter 3reads

Convert it

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To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
FLAC 1.2.1	FFmpeg	Lossless	`ffmpeg -i in.ape out.flac` Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.
FLAC 1.2.1	FFmpeg (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was.
WAV	FFmpeg	Lossless	`ffmpeg -i in.ape out.wav` Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.
WAV	FFmpeg (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was.
Advanced Audio Coding	FFmpeg (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy re-encoding.
Matroska	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.ape out.mkv` Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.
MP3	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.ape out.mp3` Lossy re-encoding.
MP3	FFmpeg (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy re-encoding.
MP4	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.ape out.mp4` Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.
Ogg	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.ape out.ogg` Lossy re-encoding.
Ogg	FFmpeg (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy re-encoding.
Ogg Opus Codec Compressed Multimedia File	FFmpeg (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy re-encoding.
WebM	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.ape out.webm` Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), WebAssembly engines (ImageMagick, FFmpeg, Pandoc, 7-Zip, GDAL, Assimp, resvg), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-26.

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