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Anyone...what is an .ape file?

I'm on soulseek browsing and have run across this type file.

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Monkey's Audio Lossless Audio Compression Format

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=APE
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Although I haven't a **** clue what that actually means ;D
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:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Dont think I'll be getting any of those then.
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Wasn't Monkey in Tales From The Water Margin? Lang Shang Po or something? :roll:

Sorry if I lost the thread. Just thought of monkey that was all. Oh, and the bloke who could run as fast as the wind. He was cool. And probably on drugs as well but I don't think testing was around in 14th century feudal Japan so Rio would have been fine. I suppose.
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Its just a lossless form of music file compression as opposed to e.g MP3 , where you lose some of the sound spectrum and cant get it back once you uncompress the file.So it would make it a good choice for music files as you will always get the original sound , when restored.dont know the compression ratio to original file size though.
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elguiri wrote:Its just a lossless form of music file compression as opposed to e.g MP3 , where you lose some of the sound spectrum and cant get it back once you uncompress the file.So it would make it a good choice for music files as you will always get the original sound , when restored.dont know the compression ratio to original file size though.
Never use the words 'lossless' and 'compression' in the same sentence. Doesn't work....

If it DOES work, the ratio will be 1:1 ;D

But my interest got aroused, so I checked his site...
Gonna try to make a comparison between Monkey and normal MP3 encoding, just to see if Monkey's the new golden egg....

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Black Planet wrote:Anyone...what is an .ape file?

I'm on soulseek browsing and have run across this type file.

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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Never use the words 'lossless' and 'compression' in the same sentence. Doesn't work....

If it DOES work, the ratio will be 1:1 ;D
Not necessarily: Zip compression usually squashes things to around 50% without any loss of data.

e.g. I've just tested on a .txt file: original size 1MB (1135310 bytes) zipped file size 472K (480581 bytes). 42.3% of original size and no data lost. :P
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markfiend wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Never use the words 'lossless' and 'compression' in the same sentence. Doesn't work....

If it DOES work, the ratio will be 1:1 ;D
Not necessarily: Zip compression usually squashes things to around 50% without any loss of data.

e.g. I've just tested on a .txt file: original size 1MB (1135310 bytes) zipped file size 472K (480581 bytes). 42.3% of original size and no data lost. :P
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Johnny Boy wrote:Geeks. :urff:
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markfiend wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Never use the words 'lossless' and 'compression' in the same sentence. Doesn't work....

If it DOES work, the ratio will be 1:1 ;D
Not necessarily: Zip compression usually squashes things to around 50% without any loss of data.

e.g. I've just tested on a .txt file: original size 1MB (1135310 bytes) zipped file size 472K (480581 bytes). 42.3% of original size and no data lost. :P
Agree with ya on the TXT file, but that is because there is a lot of info in a TXT file that you can get rid of WITHOUT losing info (spaces, for instance), while with music, you can only try to compress when you have exact the same data on left and right channel...which is very rare. There are always very slight differences, and when you start compressing, you always have data loss, no matter what Monkey or others say...

Now who's calling us geeks again, mmmm? :twisted:


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Same with images/scans, you end up with what they call 'artefacts' ie. pi$h piccys.
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Yes, yes, all very interesting but what was the name of the character who could run as fast as the wind? Going of topic winds me up sooo much ... :innocent: :lol:
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Billy Wizz? ;)

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