APE Tags

Tags found in Monkey's Audio (APE) information. Only a few common tags are listed below, but ExifTool will extract any tag found. ExifTool supports APEv1 and APEv2 tags, as well as ID3 information in APE files, and will also read APE metadata from MP3 and MPC files.

Tag ID Tag Name Writable Values / Notes

'Album' Album no

'Artist' Artist no

'DURATION' Duration no

'Genre' Genre no

'Title' Title no

'Tool Name' ToolName no

'Tool Version' ToolVersion no

'Track' Track no

'Year' Year no

APE NewHeader Tags

APE MAC audio header for version 3.98 or later.

Index2 Tag Name Writable Values / Notes

0 CompressionLevel no

2 BlocksPerFrame no

4 FinalFrameBlocks no

6 TotalFrames no

8 BitsPerSample no

9 Channels no

10 SampleRate no

APE OldHeader Tags

APE MAC audio header for version 3.97 or earlier.

Index2 Tag Name Writable Values / Notes

0 APEVersion no

1 CompressionLevel no

3 Channels no

4 SampleRate no

10 TotalFrames no

12 FinalFrameBlocks no

(This document generated automatically by Image::ExifTool::BuildTagLookup)
Last revised Sep 24, 2025

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