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Monkey's Audio
Monkey’s Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital audio (WAV files). Unlike lossy methods (mp3, mp2, lqt, etc.) that apply psychoacoustics to filter out information, Monkey’s Audio only operates losslessly, thus preserving the full audio quality. Lossless compression has several key advantages. For starters, it maintains the full quality of the music, so that reproduction is always perfect! It can satisfy the anal-retentive and audiophile in all of us. Secondly, it can compress and decompress files much more quickly than lossy methods. This means less CPU consumption during playback, and a whole lot less time archiving your music collection. Finally, lossless compression allows for an infinite number of compress and decompress cycles without any loss of quality. That way, if new technology is ever developed, you don’t have to spend the time recopying your whole music collection. Our Review: A very cool program that could be put to great use by any digital music purist. Basically it is a new type of music compression format that allows for a higher quality of compressed music than the MP3 format, while still being of a reasonably small size. It compresses very quickly (a whole track in around 10 seconds), and leaves you with a very high quality compressed audio file about 40% of the original size. Very easy to use and well worth the look if you aren't entirely happy with the quality of MP3 sound. Comes with its own player for the format as well as a Winamp plugin to ensure widespread usage.
Licence: Freeware Version: 3.71 OS: Windows 95/98, Windows NT Date: 2000/10/14 Developer: Matthew T. Ashland Size: 2.71 MB		Free download
Yippee Ratings Breakdown (5 is best): Installation: 4 Interface: 4 Functionality: 4 Documentation: 4