Topic Index

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General Information

General Guides

EAC Guides

CDex Guides

MP3 Guides

Recommended settings for encoding with LAME

Ogg Vorbis Guides

Recommended encoders and settings for encoding with Vorbis.

Audio Codecs

Media Extractors

CD Extractors

Exact Audio Copy (Win32)
iTunes (Win32/OsX)
CDex (Win32)
cdparanoia (Posix)
Grip (Posix)
PlexTools (Win32)
dBpowerAMP with AccurateRip (Win32)

DVD Extractors

DVDDecrypter (Win32)

Media Players

Other

CL-Amp (BeOS)

Audio Editors

Windows

Adobe Audition (Previously known as Cool Edit)
Audacity
Goldwave
Sony Sound Forge (Previously released by Sonic Foundry)

Linux/BSD

Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific)

Audacity

Other

Timidity++ (MIDI to PCM (WAV) converter. Timidity++ synthesizes MIDI files (sequences) in real-time using Gravis UltraSound Soundfont patches (loosly based upon Wavetable Synthesis) to common digital audio file formats such as, WAV, AU, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, etc. Useful for those who want to bypass FM Synthesizers on their sound card's to hear MIDI sequence as it was intended to be heard.)

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

PC Audio

Notebook Audio

Echo Indigo IO 24/96

HiFi

Digital Audio Players

Portable Flash

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

Creative MuVo

iRiver iFP Series

MPIO lFP Series

Rio Carbon

Neuros

Apple iPod shuffle

Portable HD

(These players make use of a internal harddrive.)

Apple iPod

iRiver H-Series

MPIO H-Series

Rio Karma

iAudio M3

Neuros

Archos Jukebox with Rockbox Software

Portable CD

Car Players

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

Aiwa CDC-MP3

Audio Theory

Analog Audio

Digital Audio

Replaygain

Testing Methodology

ABX
EAQUAL

Audio Development

Getting Started

note: Let's start with basic development tools (compilers, engineering tools, dev. libraries) until we think of more tools to add. I am also adding external links to books, tutorials, etc under resources.

Tools

MATLAB 7.0 commercial software for algorithmic design, developement, engineering, and scientific computing.
GNU Octave open-source alternative software (GPL) to MATLAB for numerical computations, engineering, and scientific computing. (multi-platform support)
FFTW Is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions on real and complex inputs.
GCC THE GNU compiler collection for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada.
GNU Emacs an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Great for writing all types of source code especially on Unix. (multi-platform support)
DevCPP free front-end IDE and compiler for the C and C++ languages. Delphi and C source code available. (Win 9x, NT, 2000, and XP)

Resources

Scientific/R&D Forums for Psychoacoustic, DSP, Electrical Engineering, theory, and coding related questions. (most questions are generally answered)
AES The Audio Engineering Society website. Home of year-round world AES conferences.
DSP Tutorials this site provides another good introduction in to the area of DSP.
Music-DSP source-code archive for anaylsis, filters, effects and synthesis. (C, C++, and Java code)
ALSA Project (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) bringing audio and MIDI capabilities to Linux.
A Really friendly guide to Wavelets A good introduction to wavelets aimed towards engineer, requires a fair amount of background knowledge.

Books/Research

Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models author's Zwicker, Fastl, and Hugo, revised 2005 third edition. The book for comprehensive psychoacoustics models and figures.
Perceptual Audio Coding authors A. Painter and T. Spanias. A comprehensive paper on percepual audio coding (PDF)
Speech Communications Human and Machine this book provides a good introduction to speech coding, inlcuding anaylsis, recognition, and perception. This text is a very good introduction for beginners.
Scientist and Engineer's Guide to DSP author Steve Smith, a great guide for beginners new to the subject of DSP (free online text)
Vector Quantization authors Gersho and Gray. Good read for understanding how VQ and arithmetic coding work.

Audio Resources

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 its 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)
http://www.rockbox.org/ (Open-source jukebox firmware for numerous DAP and architectures, GNU/GPL Liscense).
http://psplab.csie.nctu.edu.tw/invboard2_0/index.php (Perceptual Signal Processing Lab, small university forum based in Tawain dealing with perceptual coding on acedemic level).

Articles

Listening Tests

Glossary

Glossary of Audio Terms

General Information

General Guides

EAC Guides

CDex Guides

MP3 Guides

Ogg Vorbis Guides

Audio Codecs

Lossy

Lossless

Metadata (Tags)

Media Extractors

CD Extractors

DVD Extractors

Media Players

Windows

Linux/BSD

Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific)

Other

Audio Editors

Windows

Linux/BSD

Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific)

Other

Testing Software

Subjective Perceptual

Objective

Audio Hardware

PC Audio

Notebook Audio

HiFi

Digital Audio Players

Audio Theory

Analog Audio

Digital Audio

Testing Methodology

Audio Development

Getting Started

Tools

Resources

Books/Research

Audio Resources

Websites

Articles

Listening Tests

Other Topics

Video

Container formats

Glossary