Glossary Of Audio Terms
A
- AAC
- ABR
- ABX/ABX testing
- AC3
- Aliasing
- AltPresets
- Amplitude and Frequency
- APE (extension for Monkey's Audio)
- APE Tags
- Artifact/Distortion
- ATH (absolute threshold of hearing)
B
- Bandpass filter
- Bandstop filter/Band reject
- Bandwidth
- Bark
- Bit reservoir
- Bitrate
- Blind test
- Block switching
C
- CBR/Constant bitrate/Constant bitrate coding
- Channel coupling
- Clipping
- Codec
- Container format
- Critical band
D
- dB/Decibel
- DC coefficient
- DCT
- DCT coefficient
- DRM / Digital Radio Mondiale
- DRM / Digital Rights Management
- DSP
- DTS
F
- FFT
- Filterbank
- FIR filter (Finite Impulse Response Filters)
- FLAC
- Frequency and Amplitude
- Frequency domain
H
- Harmonics
- Highpass Filter
- Huffman coding
I
- ID3
- IIR filter (Infinite Impulse Response Filters)
- Impulse
- Intensity stereo
- Inverse mix
J
L
- LFE - Low Frequency Extension
- LPAC
- Long block
- Lossless
- Lossy
- Lowpass Filter
- LTQ (level of threshold in quiet)
M
- Masking
- MDCT
- Metadata
- Mid-side stereo
- Monkey's Audio
- MP3 (MPEG 1 audio layer 3)
- MP3Pro
- MPC/MP+/Musepack/Mpeg Plus
- Mpeg/Motion Picture Expert Group
- Multichannel
N
- Neural network
- Noise shaping
- Noise like signals
- Notch filter
- Nyquist rate/Nyquist frequency/Nyquist sampling theorem
O
P
Q
R
- Range coding
- Ringing (traditional sense)
S
- Sampling rate/Sample rate/Sampling frequency
- SBR (Spectral Band Replication)
- Scale factor/Scale factor band
- Short block
- Shorten (SHN)
- Spectrogram
- Streaming
- Subband
- SZIP
T
- Temporal accuracy
- Temporal smearing
- Time domain
- Tonality/Tonal signals/Tonality estimation
- Transform
- Transient
- Transient smearing
- Transparency
V
- VBR (variable bitrate/variable bitrate coding)