[access-uk] Re: playing .ape files?
- From: "Phil" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:40:29 +0100
Hi Simon.
If you have obtained an APE file, this is a Monkey's Audio file.
Monkey's Audio is a
<http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/lossless_compression.cfm>
lossless audio
<http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/compression.cfm> compression
<http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/codec.cfm> codec . Since it is
lossless, there is no quality loss from the source audio once it is
compressed. It achieves a compression rate of about 40%. It's main
advantage over
<http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/lossy_compression.cfm> lossy
compression formats such as
<http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/mp3.cfm> MP3 is obvious, the
quality of MP3 is not near as good. However, the files are much larger
than simple MP3 files which is why MP3 files would be more available
online than APE files.
You need to have a player that supports Monkey's Audio. You can download
one from here:
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
I hope this helps.
Regards Phil.
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Subject: [access-uk] playing .ape files?
hello list,
a few days ago, I came across a new audio file format, .ape and no
matter what I try, nothing will play them.
I can convert them in to more standard formats, thanks to easy cd da
extractor, but I tried winamp, realplayer, quicktime, i-tunes, and
windows media player, and none of them would actually play the files.
does anyone out there know what I can use to actually play these .ape
files please?
Simon Wilkes,
e-mail or windows messenger,
dj.goshawk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
skype,
dj-goshawk
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