Glossary Of Audio Terms
From Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
A
- AAC
- ABR
- ABX/ABX testing
- AC3
- Aliasing
- AltPresets
- Ambisonics
- Amplitude
- APE (Monkey's Audio)
- APE Tags
- Artifact/Distortion
- ATH (Absolute Threshold of Hearing)
- ASIO (Audio Stream Input Output)
- ASPI (CD-ROM Installation)
B
- Bandpass filter
- Bandstop filter/Band reject
- Bandwidth
- Bark
- Bit reservoir
- Bitrate
- Bits per sample / Bit depth
- Blind test
- Block switching
- BSAC (Bit-sliced arithmetic coding)
C
- CBR/Constant bitrate/Constant bitrate coding
- Channel coupling
- Clipping
- Codec
- Container format
- Critical band
- C1/C2 errors
D
- dB/Decibel
- DC coefficient
- DCT
- DCT coefficient
- DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale)
- DRM (Digital Rights Management)
- Dither
- DSP
- DTS
F
- FFT
- Filterbank
- FIR filter (Finite Impulse Response Filters)
- FLAC
- Frequency
- Frequency domain
H
- Harmonics
- Highpass
- Huffman coding
- HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
I
- ID3
- IIR filter (Infinite Impulse Response Filters)
- Impulse
- Intensity stereo
- Inverse mix
J
L
- LFE (Low Frequency Extension)
- LPAC
- LPC (Linear Prediction Coding)
- Long block
- Lossless
- Lossy
- Lowpass
- LTQ (Level of Threshold in Quiet)
M
- Masking
- MDCT
- Metadata
- Mid-side stereo
- Monkey's Audio
- MP3 (MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3)
- MP3Pro
- MPC/MP+/Musepack/Mpeg Plus
- Mpeg (Motion Picture Expert Group)
- MPEG-4
- Multichannel
N
- Neural network
- Noise shaping
- Noise normalization
- Notch filter
- Nyquist rate/Nyquist frequency/Nyquist sampling theorem
O
P
- Parametric stereo/PS
- PCM
- Perceptual Noise Substitution
- PNS/Perceptual Noise Substitution
- Point stereo
- Pre echo/Post echo
- Psychoacoustic
- Psychoacoustic model
- Pre-masking/Post-masking
Q
R
S
- Sampling rate/Sample rate/Sampling frequency
- SBR (Spectral Band Replication)
- Scale factor/Scale factor band
- Short block
- Shorten (SHN)
- Sigma Delta Modulation
- SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio)
- Spectrogram
- S/PDIF (Sony-Phillips Digital Interface)
- Streaming
- Subband
- SZIP
T
- TTA True Tap Audio
- Temporal accuracy
- Temporal smearing
- Temporal Noise Shaping
- Time domain
- TNS
- Tonality/Tonal signals/Tonality estimation
- Transcoding
- Transform
- Transient
- Transient smearing
- Transparency
- Tremor
V
- VBR (Variable Bitrate/Variable Bitrate Coding)
- Vector quantization
