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
• Enabling DMA
• Create a lossless back-up with EAC and Flac
• Configuring EAC and Lame

Audio Formats

Lossy

• MP3
• AAC
• Ogg Vorbis
• Musepack
• WMA
• ATRAC3
• AC3
• DTS
• MP2

Lossless

• Apple Lossless
• True Audio
• Free Lossless Audio Compressor
• Lossless Audio
• Monkey's Audio
• OptimFROG
• WavPack
• Shorten
• LPAC
• RealAudio Lossless
• WMA Lossless

Metadata (Tags)

• ID3v1
• ID3v1.1
• ID3v2
• APE Tags
• Vorbis Comment

Media Extractors

CD Extractors

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

DVD Extractors

• DVDDecrypter (Win32)

Media Players

Windows

• foobar2000

• Winamp

• iTunes

• wxMusik

• Quintessential Player

• Windows Media Player

• XMPlay

Linux/BSD

• Amarok

• BMP

• JuK

• Muine

• Music Player Daemon (MPD)

• Rhythmbox

• wxMusik

• XMMS

Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific)

• iTunes

• Whamb

Other

• CL-Amp (BeOS)

Audio Editors

Windows

• Adobe Audition (Previously known as CoolEdit)
• Audacity

Linux/BSD

• Audacity

Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific)

• 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

PC Audio

• Terratec EWX 24/96

Digital Audio Players

Portable Flash

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

• Creative MuVo

• iRiver iFP Series

• Rio Carbon

• Neuros

• Apple iPod shuffle

Portable HD

(These players make use of a internal harddrive.)

• Apple iPod

• iRiver 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

Digital Audio

replaygain

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 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

Video

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

Container Formats

• Matroska
• Ogg
• AVI
• MPEG-4 Systems

Glossary

• Glossary of Audio Terms