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Digitally coded format for audio signals
An audio coding format, or audio compression format, is an encoded format of digital audio, such as in digital television, digital radio and in audio and video files. Examples of audio coding formats include MP3, AAC, Vorbis, FLAC, and Opus. A specific software or hardware implementation capable of audio compression and decompression to/from a specific audio coding format is called an audio codec; an example of an audio codec is LAME, which is one of several different codecs which implements encoding and decoding audio in the MP3 audio coding format in software. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Audio coding formatA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Information Security for Audio Steganography Using a Phase Coding MethodInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: BibleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A hierarchical lossless/lossy coding system for high quality audio up to 192 kHz sampling 24 bit formatCited 2 times
- Go sideways: Lossy compressionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Advanced Audio CodingA closely related topic
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📚 Books worth reading
BibleBible · 1200
A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · 1600
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare · 1687
Computer NetworksAndrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall · 1981
Computer networkingJames F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross · 1900
The World's Easiest Guide to Using the APACarol J. Amato · 1995
Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
Sweating BulletsRobert Gaskins · 2012
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🔗 Related topics
- Lossy compression In information technology, lossy compression, or irreversible compression, is the class of data compression methods that uses inexact approximations and…
- Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. It was developed by Dolby, AT&T, Fraunhofer and Sony, originally…
- Dolby Digital Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3 (see below), is the name for a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories…
- Data compression In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original…
- Dolby Digital Plus Dolby Digital Plus, also known as Enhanced AC-3 (and commonly abbreviated as DDP, DD+, E-AC-3 or EC-3), is a digital audio compression scheme developed…
- Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology…
- Dolby TrueHD Dolby TrueHD is a lossless, multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories for home video, used principally in Blu-ray Disc and compatible hardware…
- Codec A codec is a computer hardware or software component that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. In electronic…