A new version of Monkey's Audio is out.

Version 3.97 (August 2, 2002)

1. Changed: "Save File List Between Sessions" now on by default in front end.
2. Changed: Replaced usage of "#pragma once" with more non-MS compiler friendly alterternative.
3. NEW: MakeAPL now supports command line APL generation. (pass a .CUE file (no wildcards yet) -- operates in silent mode using existing settings)
4. Changed: Assembly support no longer required for backwards compatibility. (thanks Torgeir Strand Henriksen)
5. Changed: Several non-Windows buildability issues.
6. Changed: Using NASM to compile all assembly code. (aids cross-platform buildability)
7. Changed: Encapsulated the APELink code.
8. Changed: Tags aren't analyzed immediately when opening an http:// or m01p:// stream.
9. Changed: Added more functionality to the APL parser.
10. Changed: Added CreateIAPEDecompressEx2(...) to allow the creation of a ranged decoder.

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/download.html

--- Coming in 3.98 ----

Insane mode for higher maximum compression
Hopefully better compression for other modes
Resolution of APETag vs APETag2 issues
More non-Windows stuff

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/Y...&num=1028342879

will there ever be an universal Monkey's Audio decoder (like 1.0 for OGG vorbis)? Or is this impossible with adaptive or in general lossless encoders ?

even Matt could, he's always adding new code changes and features to the decoder and encoder, so untill he settles down with the coding, I doubt it would do any good to make it universal.