How to Convert and Play APE Files Step by Step

Monkey's Audio (APE) is the file format for lossless audio data compression, that is, a digital recording (such as a CD) encoded to the APE format can be decompressed into an identical copy of the original audio data, so it does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as AAC, MP3, Vorbis and Musepack.

Data file compression is employed in order to reduce bandwidth, file transfer time, and/or storage requirements. The advantages of the APE format are better compression rates and multicore support, but the disadvantages of the Monkey's Audio are the fact that it employs a symmetric algorithm, which means the decoding takes comparable resources to encoding, so it needs the fastest portable players and has limited support on software platforms other than Windows.

However, you can not play APE on iPod, if you want to play APE on your iPod, the first step you should do is to convert APE to iPod supported formats such as MP3. MP3 is a patented encoding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. AnyMP4 APE to iPod Converter can help you convert APE to iPod, such as MP3, AAC, and WAV. So it can be also called APE to iPod Converter. Besides, it can convert APE to other audio formats such as MP2, OGG, WMA, AC3 and so forth. Now this guide will help you how to convert APE to iPod with this APE to iPod Converter.