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
- Configuring EAC and Vorbis
- Configuring EAC and Wavpack
- Configuring EAC and FLAC
Audio Formats
Lossy
Lossless
- Apple Lossless
- Free Lossless Audio Compressor
- Lossless Audio
- LPAC
- Monkey's Audio
- OptimFROG
- RealAudio Lossless
- Shorten
- True Audio
- WavPack
- WMA Lossless
Metadata (Tags)
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
Linux/BSD
Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific)
Other
- CL-Amp (BeOS)
Audio Editors
Windows
- Adobe Audition (Previously known as CoolEdit)
- Audacity
Linux/BSD
Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific)
Other
Testing Software
Subjective Perceptual
Objective
Note: Might be good to put something here about the problems of quality comparisons using graphs, frequency sweeps, etc.
Audio Hardware
PC Audio
HiFi
Digital Audio Players
Portable Flash
(These players make use of a internal flash drive.)
Portable HD
(These players make use of a internal harddrive.)
Portable CD
Car Players
(Car stereos that can read MP3, Vorbis, WMA, etc.).
Audio Theory
Analog Audio
Digital Audio
Testing Methodology
Audio Development
Getting Started
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.
- DevCPP free front-end IDE and compiler for the C and C++ languages. Delphi and C source code available.
Resources
- Scientific/R&D Forums for Psychoacoustic, DSP, Electrical Engineering, theory, and coding related questions.
- Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models author's Zwicker, Fastl, and Hugo, revised 1999 second edition. THE book for comprehensive psychoacoustics models and figures.
- AES The audio engineering society website. Home of year-round world AES conferences.
- Scientist and Engineer's Guide to DSP author Steve Smith, a great guide for beginners new to the subject of DSP (free online text)
- DSP Tutorial 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)
- A Really friendly guide to Wavelets A good introduction to wavelets aimed towards engineer requires a fair amount of background knowledge.
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)
Articles
Listening Tests
Other Topics
Video
Container Formats