## 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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