Topic Index

This wiki was created by the members of Hydrogenaudio forum. We would like to invite to use and contribute to this wiki. If it helped you please help others by making these pages better.

Introduction & User Guides

A starting place for new users to audio, with guides to compression and CD ripping and a glossary of all common terms.

• Glossary
• FAQ
• Audio format guide
• Ripping Guide
• Tagging
• Replaygain

Audio Formats

Pros/cons, Recommended settings, Useful tools

• AAC
• Ogg Vorbis
• MP3
• MPC
• WMA, Lossless & Other codecs

Container Formats

What is a container format?

• Matroska
• MP4
• Ogg

Audio Hardware & CD Ripping

CD Tools, Secure Ripping, Soundcard Quality

• Secure ripping
• Ripping guide
• CD copy protection
• CD Hardware
• Soundcards
• Other hardware

Tests

• Secure audio extraction ("CDex full paranoia versus EAC secure mode" by Pio2001)
• Secure audio extraction II (by westgroveg)

Downloads

Where to obtain the software discussed here.

• Download page
• Download page linux

Contributing to the wiki

• Wiki User Guide
• Play around at the sand box to try your formatting skills. Everything goes here and everything can/may be deleted.
• What is a Wiki?