Editing Monkey's Audio (section)

{{Short description|Open-source lossless audio codec}}
{{distinguish|text=[[MediaMonkey]], an unrelated digital media player and media library application}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox file format
| name          = Monkey's Audio
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| extension     = .ape
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| standard      = {{URL|https://www.monkeysaudio.com/developers.html}}
| open          = No
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{{Infobox software
| name = Monkey's Audio
| screenshot = Monkey's Audio 7.34 software on Windows screenshot.webp
| caption = Screenshot of Monkey's Audio software on Windows successfully verifying .ape files
| developer = Matthew T. Ashland
| released = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2000}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1064017|P348}}
| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q1064017|P348|P577}}
| genre = [[Audio compression (data)|Audio compression]]
| license = [https://www.monkeysaudio.com/license.html The 3-Clause BSD Licence]
| website = [https://www.monkeysaudio.com/ www.monkeysaudio.com]
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'''Monkey's Audio''' is an algorithm and [[file format]] for [[lossless data compression|lossless]] [[audio data compression]]. Lossless data compression does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike [[lossy compression]] methods such as [[Advanced Audio Coding]], [[MP3]], [[Vorbis]], and [[Opus (audio format)|Opus]]. Similar to other lossless audio codecs, files encoded to Monkey's Audio are typically reduced to about half of the original size,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison#Comparison_Table |title=Lossless comparison: Comparison table |date=2022 |website=Hydrogen Audio |access-date=2022-10-08}}</ref> with data transfer time and storage requirements being reduced accordingly.