Compression Levels
Many audiophiles and music fans wishing to perfectly preserve their original audio CDs (CD ripping), vinyl records, or tapes (digitizing) often favor a lossless audio format like Monkey’s audio for their first-generation digital copy. When using Monkey’s Audio to compress an original audio source, you can expect to get approximately a 50 percent reduction on the original uncompressed size. Monkey’s Audio achieves better than average lossless compression compared to other lossless formats like FLAC (which varies between 30 percent and 50 percent). The audio compression levels that Monkey’s Audio currently uses are:
Advantages and Disadvantages of Monkey’s Audio
Like any audio format, there are advantages and disadvantages worth weighing up before you decide whether to use it or not. Here’s a list of the main pros and cons of encoding your original audio sources in the Monkey’s Audio format.
