An Ape. File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yassirnasir]

When I Convert My Mps Files In To Monkey Audios I Thought They Are Gonna Get Compressed But They Go To 5 Times Bigger Files.what Si This All About Should They Get Smaller. And How Am I Supposed To Play Ape Files On What Sort Of Player???

[ChristinaS]

Re: An Ape. File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I Convert My Mps Files In To Monkey Audios I Thought They Are Gonna Get Compressed But They Go To 5 Times Bigger Files.what Si This All About Should They Get Smaller. And How Am I Supposed To Play Ape Files On What Sort Of Player???

What made you comvert them if you don't know what plays them and how big they are as files?

.dAP plays .ape files.

Monkeys is a lossless codec. This means that when you convert an ucompressed .wav file to .ape there is no loss of audio quality. The .ape file will be about 1/2 of the original uncompressed .wav file size.

You were converting .mp3 - which is not a lossless codec- to a lossless codec. So your file ends up taking 1/2 of the size of the original .wav .

It is useless to convert from lossy to lossless as it will not improve audio quality.

[imom]

Re: An Ape. File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Foobar2000 will also play APE files.

Christina is correct - you should never transcode from lossy to lossless. You get a huge filesize penalty with no obvious benefit and certainly no difference in sound quality.

[neilthecellist]

Re: An Ape. File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

noob post. (no offense, it's just a lil' funny)

stick to your mp3s. DO NOT CONVERT to a lossless format unless you like to waste time like me. MP3s are lossy, and like imom said, lossy should never be converted to lossless.