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. That means it always sounds perfect – exactly the same as the original. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space. (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ for your music)

The other great thing is that you can always decompress your Monkey´s Audio files back to the exact, original files. That way, you´ll never have to recopy your CD collection to switch formats, and you´ll always be able to recreate the original music CD if something ever happens to yours.

Features:

• 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

What´s New in version 4.10:

• Changed: When compressing a file, the input WAV file is always opened in read-only mode (writes were never done, but previously the input WAV would only be opened in read-only mode if write permissions were not available).
• Changed: Updated to newer nasm compiler for MMX assembly.
• Changed: Updated the console application (MAC.exe) to support Unicode filenames (GUI has always had Unicode support).
• Changed: Removed obsolete Unicode compatibility DLL (unicows.dll) from the installer (only used by Win 9x).