Convert APE to AAC — Free Online Converter

Monkey's Audio (APE) achieves some of the highest lossless compression ratios available — typically 55-65% of the original PCM size — but its decoder is slow and platform support is extremely limited. AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) is the modern lossy standard used by Apple Music, YouTube, Spotify (for some content), and virtually every mobile device and browser. Converting APE to AAC makes your lossless music collection playable everywhere while maintaining excellent audio quality at compact file sizes.

APE has almost no native playback support outside of foobar2000, Winamp, and a few Asian media players. You cannot play APE on an iPhone, in a web browser, or on most car stereos. AAC solves all of these problems — it is the default audio codec on Apple devices, natively supported on Android, and playable in every modern browser. At 256 kbps, AAC is perceptually transparent to most listeners, meaning the quality difference from lossless APE is inaudible to the majority of people in normal listening conditions.