Monkey's Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or lqt that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey's Audio only makes perfect , bit-for-bit copies of your music.
Features of Monkey's Audio:
- Efficient (fast and great compression): Monkey's Audio is highly optimized and highly efficient
- Perfect sound: absolutely no quality loss, meaning it sounds perfect and decompresses perfect (it's lossless!)
- Media Center, Winamp, and more support: supported by many popular players and rippers
- Easy: the Windows environment interface is both powerful and easy to use
- Free: Monkey's Audio is completely free!
- Error detection: Monkey's Audio incorporates redundant CRC's to ensure proper decompression of data (errors never go unnoticed)
- Tagging support: Monkey's Audio uses its own extremely flexible APE Tags so you can easily manage and catalogue your Monkey's Audio collection.
- External coder support: you can use Monkey's Audio as a front-end for all of your encoding needs
- Freely available source code, simple SDK and non-restrictive licensing - other developers can easily use Monkey's Audio in their own programs -- and there are no evil restrictive licensing agreements