Topic Index

Currently most of these links lead nowhere due to the fact that we are considering how to best convert the old material and how to reorganize things in a more efficient manner.

• Please see this thread for a discussion of the future structure of this wiki. If you have thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc., please join in this discussion. In the meantime, please feel free to fill in gaps in the information below.
• See also style related discussion

General Information

Guides

• Create a long-term archive

FAQ's

• General Audio Compression
• Lossy Formats (MP3, WMA, AAC etc.)
• EAC
• Secure Mode Ripping
• Offsets
• Protected Audio CDs
• Various

Glossary

• Glossary of Audio Terms

Specific Information

Audio Software

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Note: We need to figure out a good way to denote the distinction between software available on different platforms. Why not add supported platforms after the name of the tool?

Encoders/Decoders

Lossless

• TTA (True Audio) (Win32/Posix)

• FLAC (Win32/Posix)

• LA

• Monkey's Audio

• OptimFROG

• WavPack (Dos/Win32/Posix)

Lossy

• FAAC (AAC) (Win32/Posix)

• LAME (MP3) (Win32/Posix)

• mppenc (Musepack)

• oggenc (Ogg_Vorbis) (Win32/Posix)

Rippers

• Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
• iTunes (Win32/OsX)
• cdparanoia (Posix)

Players

Windows

• foobar2000

• Winamp

• iTunes

• wxMusik

• Quintessential Player

Linux/BSD

• Rhythmbox

• Muine

• XMMS

• wxMusik

• Beep Media Player (BMP)

Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific)

• iTunes

• Whamb

Other

• CL-Amp (BeOS)

Editors

• Adobe Audition (Previously known as CoolEdit)
• Audacity

Testing Software

Subjective Perceptual

• ABC/HR

• PCABX

Objective

Note: Might be good to put something here about the problems of quality comparisons using graphs, frequency sweeps, etc.

• EAQUAL

• Rightmark Audio Analyzer

Audio Hardware

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Digital Audio Players

Portable Flash

(These players make use of a internal flash drive.)

• Creative MuVo

• Rio Carbon

Portable HD

(These players make use of a internal harddrive.)

• Apple iPod

• iRiver H-Series

• Rio Karma

• iAudio M3

Portable CD

Car Players

(Car stereos that can read MP3, Vorbis, WMA, etc.).

Audio Theory

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Compression Technology

Lossy

• MP3

• AAC

• Ogg Vorbis

• Musepack

• WMA

• ATRAC3

Lossless

• Apple Lossless

• TTA

• FLAC

• LA

• Monkey's Audio

• OptimFROG

• WavPack

• Shorten

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Audio Resources

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Websites

Note: Let's include a small description to the side for now, so that we have something to work with when this section becomes large enough for it's own page

• http://www.audiocoding.com (Page with a wiki on technical audio topics, homepage of FAAC and FAAD2, also has an AAC forum.)
• http://www.ff123.net (Lots of general information on various MP3 implementations, test samples, testing methodology information, homepage of ABC/HR)
• http://www.head-fi.org (general information/board about head phones and portable audio players)
• http://www.rarewares.org (Downloads for many audio and media tools)

Other Topics

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Video

• MPEG-4 Visual
• Theora
• Real Video
• Windows Media Video
• VP6

Container Formats

• Matroska
• Ogg
• AVI
• MPEG-4 Systems

Metadata

• ID3
• APE Tags
• Vorbis Comment