Download Monkey’s Audio 4.02

Yesterday, after a long time of silence, a new version of Monkey’s Audio was released. This program can compress sound files. Unlike for example mp3 or aac, this is a lossless format, so no data is lost during compression. Although the software is released as freeware and the compression is very efficient, it has never really become popular. One of the reasons for this is that Monkey’s Audio is proprietary software. In addition, there is hardly any support for outside the Windows platform. Below are all the changes that have been made to the program since the previous entry in the Meuktracker:

Version 4.02 (January 19, 2009)

• NEW: Includes Directshow filter for decoding APE files in any DirectShow compatible player like Windows Media Player, Zoom, etc.
• Fixed: Corrupt APE files could cause decoder crashes in rare cases.
• Changed: Updated builder that gets better compression, making for a smaller download.

Version 4.01b2 (February 17, 2006)

• 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.

Version 4.01b1 (January 8, 2006)

• NEW: Features new user interface. (written in C++ and threaded for dual-core computers — making it nearly twice as fast to compress, decompress, and convert with a dual-core setup)
• NEW: New interface supports external codecs using simple XML configuration scripts.
• Changed: MACDll.dll is unified to include SDK, Winamp, and CoolEdit support in one component.
• Fixed: Corrupt / invalid APEv2 tags could cause problems in some cases.
• Fixed: APL creation could use track boundaries that were off by 1/44100th of a second in some cases.
• Fixed: APL creation would not properly report errors when the CUE file didn’t point to an existing APE file.
• Fixed: In very rare cases, decoding an old APE file could cause an invalid decompression error.
• Fixed: When converting from APE -> APE, the APEv2 tag could get appended as WAV data to the new file. (instead of as a file tag)