Monkey's Audio 4.01 Beta 2  beta

Publisher's Description:

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. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space.

Latest Changes:

• Fixed: File > Exit would not close the program
• Fixed: Typo on the options dialog "Leave source file intact" option
• Fixed: APX files that weren't NULL terminated could cause a crash
• Fixed: Files that were skipped would show "Error" instead of "Skipped" in the status column
• Changed: Improved the error reporting in the status column after a failure
• Fixed: Possible small memory leak (100 bytes) on missing file decompression / conversion errors
• Changed: Increased the statusbar size to better hold batches of 100+ GBs of files
• Changed: The file list will scroll to show newly started files during processing
• Fixed: Adding or removing files from the file list is no longer allowed during processing
• Changed: Pausing processing no longer distorts the time estimation
• Fixed: Some operations would not pause properly. (external encoders, etc.)
• Fixed: The list control would flicker more than necessary when working with long lists of files

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	runningfool	Jul 26, 2007
Version:	4.01 Beta 2
monkeys audio encoder compresses at about a 5% better rate than FLAC. unfortunately .ape files dont include support for replaygain or multichannel audio. there are also a significant number of reports that monkeys audio files become corrpted at a much faster rate than any other mainstream audio format.
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Reviewer:	Earwicker	Apr 7, 2007
Version:	4.01 Beta 1
This is amazingly good. Very fast (compresses a 750 MB WAV in ~ 70 seconds at "High" on my AMD 3200+), compression in the order of 35 % (of original size)... for some reason, playing back the APE files through Foobar2000, if anything they sound better than the original WAVs - I don't know if it's something to do with APE's error correction? This is playing back through a serious high-end audiophile hi-fi too, I can hear the difference. Anyway, this is marvelous, works a treat, means you can store thousands of CDs on your HD without loss, and back up ~ 20 CDs on a 4.5 GB DVD. Holy crap that's good!
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Reviewer:	MickyFoley	Jan 17, 2006
Version:	4.01 Beta 1
never thought of version 4 since now. i saw this project dead on ground :( also xid i thought is dead. bit so, i see, that it's going on :) monkey audio is just to reduce unnessecary resources. never think of it, that it can compress audiofiles like ogg or mp3. monkey is a lossless compressor, that cuts only a little bit :)
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Reviewer:	Registered	Jan 9, 2006
Version:	4.01 Beta 1
just wondered does version 4 increase the speed, as i found wav pack 4.32 is so much faster than monkey 3.99 was, i know ape gives a +3% in compression over wav pack, but wav pack is about 40% - 60% faster then ape (depending on your CPU capability) wav pack tends to be optimized for p4's and athlons XP's. if any body knows, i would test things myself, but with a baby to take care of, i don't get the chance any more to play hehehe.
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Reviewer:	sn0wflake	Jan 8, 2006
Version:	4.01 Beta 1
vikingen: Does version 3.99 work with Windows ME?
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