Monkey's Audio
Algorithm and file format for lossless audio compression / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Monkey's Audio?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
Not to be confused with MediaMonkey, an unrelated digital media player and media library application.
Monkey's Audio is an algorithm and file format for lossless audio data compression. Lossless data compression does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as Advanced Audio Coding, MP3, Vorbis, and Opus. Therefore, it may be decompressed to a file that is identical to the source material.
Quick Facts Developer(s), Initial release ...
Developer(s) | Matthew T. Ashland |
---|---|
Initial release | 2000; 24 years ago (2000) |
Stable release | |
Type | Audio compression |
License | The 3-Clause BSD Licence |
Website | www.monkeysaudio.com |
Close
Quick Facts Filename extension, Standard ...
Close
Similar to other lossless audio codecs, files encoded to Monkey's Audio are typically reduced to about half of the original size,[2] with data transfer time and storage requirements being reduced accordingly.