APE is a lossless compressed audio format. Huge WAV audio files can be "slimmed down" by the software Monkey''sAudio and compressed into APE. Sometimes it is used for network audio file transmission, because the compressed APE file capacity is less than half of the WAV source file, which can save transmission time. More importantly, the WAV file obtained after decompression and restoration by Monkey''sAudio can be exactly the same as the source file before compression. Therefore, APE is called "lossless audio compression format" and Monkey''sAudio is called "lossless audio compression software".

I believe everyone knows the format of CD music, which is recognized as the best carrier of sound quality at present, but the cost is also huge. If an 80-minute CD is directly captured by software without any compression (the specific music information of the CD is invisible in the WINDOWS operating system of the computer, and the process of capturing CD music from an invisible CD and saving it on the hard disk is called "capturing"), the obtained WAV file is also about 800MB. Although the sound quality of such a huge file is good, it is not conducive to transmission on the network! As a result, various compression technologies came into being, the most famous of which are MP3, RM, WMA and so on. These compression techniques are formed by sampling some fragments and belong to lossy compression. Although 320KB MP3 is known as "close to the sound quality of CD", as long as it is connected with a slightly better power amplifier and speakers, the problem of erratic treble and bass confusion will be revealed immediately! For some high-quality HI-FI music records, MP3 is meaningless, so how to strike the best balance between file size and sound quality? The ape is here! It can compress the huge WAV into half the size! You can even compress the early mono recordings into a quarter! More importantly, it does not use mp3 and other sampling compression methods, but "lossless compression", which can be completely restored to wav with the software monkey''saudio, and then burned into a CD with a sound quality close to the original CD with CDR. Play it on an ordinary cd player; Or for a friend with a big hard disk, you can save it directly in the computer, play it with software, add a better sound card, or "hi-fi"! Similar lossless compression formats and wv can also be treated like ape.