You can use Qian Qian Jingting, China version of foobar2000 or foobar2000 with official plug-ins, aimp3, Cool Me, jetaudio, Storm, kmplayer, windows media player with decoder and other software to open it.

The file size of ape is about half that of CD, but with the popularity of broadband, APE format has become the favorite of many music lovers, especially those who want to transmit audio CDs through the network. Ape can help them save a lot of resources, and imitation is a popular digital music file format.

Compared with lossy compression, such as MP3, imitation sound is a lossless audio compression technology, that is to say, when you compress an audio data file and read a CD to ape format, you can recover the ape format file, just like before audio file compression, without any loss.

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As the standard of digital music file format, WAV format is too large and inconvenient to use. Therefore, we usually compress it into MP3 or WMA format. Compression methods include lossless compression, lossy compression and mixed compression.

MPEG and JPEG belong to mixed compression. If compressed data is returned, the data will be different. Of course, the human ear can't tell the difference.

Therefore, if MP3 and OGG formats are restored from compressed state, there will be loss. However, even if the APE compression format is restored, the original sound quality can be preserved without loss. Therefore, APE can be compressed and restored without losing treble texture.