Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This service is still in development. Give us your feedback.

Format

Monkey's Audio File

Summary

Name
Monkey's Audio File
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1086
Format type
Audio
Description
Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio file format created by Matt Ashland.
File extensions
ape
Submitted by
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

Monkey's Audio variant 1

Description
"MAC " {48} Compression level (1000|2000|3000|4000|5000) representing (FAST|NORMAL|HIGH|EXTRA_HIGH|INSANE)
Provenance
MACLib.h from version 4.25 SDK

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
4D414320{48}(E803|D007|B80B|A00F|8813)
Endianness
None

Monkey's Audio variant 2

Description
"MAC " {2} Compression level (1000|2000|3000|4000|5000) representing (FAST|NORMAL|HIGH|EXTRA_HIGH|INSANE)
Provenance
monkey.pas from version 4.25 SDK

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
4D414320{2}(E803|D007|B80B|A00F|8813)
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V92

    Release date
    20 September 2017
    • Added format

      Monkey's Audio File: Full entry added.

    • Added signature

      Monkey's Audio File: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.