Different from MP3 lossy compression, APE is a lossless audio compression technology, that is, when you compress the audio data file read from the audio CD into APE format, you can restore the file in APE format, and the restored audio file is exactly the same as before compression, without any loss.

The file size of APE is about half that of CD, but with the popularity of broadband, APE format is loved by many music lovers, especially for friends who want to transmit audio CDs through the network, APE can help them save a lot of resources.

You can use Qian Qian Jingting, China version of foobar2000 or foobar2000 with official plug-ins, aimp3, Cool Me, jetaudio, Storm, kmplayer, windows media player with decoder and other software to open it.

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As the standard of digital music file format, WAV format is too large and inconvenient to use. Therefore, we usually compress it into MP3 or WMA format. Compression methods include lossless compression, lossy compression and mixed compression.

MPEG and JPEG belong to mixed compression. If compressed data is restored, the data is actually different. Of course, the human ear is indistinguishable.

Therefore, if MP3 and OGG formats are restored from compressed state, there will be loss. However, even if the APE compression format is restored, the original sound quality can be preserved without loss. Therefore, APE can be compressed and restored without losing treble texture.

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