![]() Out of the box, foobar2000 didn’t play them and couldn’t even read them out to be transcoded. In the case of WavPack, even being able to achieve similar maximum compression ratios and actually having more features than Monkey’s Audio, with faster code.Įven on Windows, whose users install all sorts of garbage and don’t care about security, freedom, elegance, or optimization, it wasn’t so straightforward to get software that could deal with the “.APE” files, which you do come across sometimes.įoobar2000 was not directly compatible with it, without an extension that required the user to agree to yet another proprietary software license. (This is similar to the Microsoft Office and OOXML problem.)īy not releasing the software under a FOSS license, Monkey’s Audio was more-or-less condemned to be an unpopular choice, considering that FLAC and WavPack were already under FOSS licenses and more established. It would be better if a program were never written at all than to have another one that was proprietary, that makes data storage files that don’t follow any standard that can be easily implemented. Then the problem would have rebounded onto the FOSS community. ![]() If more people knew about Monkey’s Audio, they might use it and share files in it, even though it wasn’t FOSS to deal with it fully (just a reverse-engineered codec), and then we’d have to find ways of dealing with it more often.We already had FOSS that did the same thing.I’ve never recommended using this format, or even told people about it, and the reasons were (roughly): THE Monkey’s Audio Codec Becomes Free and Open Source Software.īeginning with version 10.18, according to the author, the “Monkey’s Audio License Agreement” has changed its language to match the 3-clause BSD license, and is now Free and Open Source Software. Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer.
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