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Audio file format
An audio file format is a file format for storing audio data on a computer system. It can be a raw bitstream, but it is usually a container format or an audio data format with defined storage layer.
The general approach towards storing digital audio is to sample the audio voltage which, on playback...
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WAV
WAVE or WAV, short for Waveform Audio File Format, (rarely also named Audio for Windows) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing...
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Windows Media Audio
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA...
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Digital Audio Tape
Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987. In appearance it is similar to a compact audio cassette, using 4 mm magnetic tape enclosed in a protective shell, but is roughly...
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FLAC
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is a file format for lossless audio data compression. During compression, FLAC does not lose quality from the audio stream, as lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do. Josh Coalson is the primary...
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AES/EBU
The digital audio standard frequently called AES/EBU, officially known as AES3, is used for carrying digital audio signals between various devices. It was developed by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and...
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Portable Sound Format
The Portable Sound Format (PSF) is a sound data file format (akin to NSF from the Nintendo Entertainment System, and other console related sound formats) ripped directly from video games from a variety of game consoles. The format was originally...
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NES Sound Format
An NSF (NES Sound Format) file is a sound data file containing instructions for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sound hardware. It is akin to SID files from the Commodore. Many NSF files are prepared from the ROM images of commercial...
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Piano roll
A piano roll is the music storage medium used to operate the player piano, pianola or a reproducing piano. The piano roll was the first medium which could be produced and copied industrially and made it possible to provide the customer with actual...
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SPC700 sound format
An SPC700 sound file (or SPC) is a type of video game music file consisting of a copy of scores and music data from RAM used by the SPC700 sound chip on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super Famicom (though such data are usually obtained...
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VGM
VGM (Video Game Music) is an audio format for multiple video game platforms, such as Sega's Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive/Genesis, SG-1000 Mark III, and possibly many others in the future. It is also used by the ProSonic game engine.
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MLAN
mLAN, short for Music Local Area Network, is a protocol for synchronized transmission and management of multi-channel digital audio, video, control signals and multi-port MIDI over a network. It exploits several features of the IEEE 1394 standard,...
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GYM
GYM is a sound format for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis.
The name stands for Genesis YM2612, since the file contains the data sent to the Yamaha YM2612 sound chip in the console. The data is logged to a file through the use of emulators running a...
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Nintendo Ultra 64 Sound Format
The Nintendo Ultra64 Sound Format (USF) is a file format by Adam Gashlin that contains the sound-generating code from a Nintendo 64 video game (akin to PSF for the Sony PlayStation). The basic USF file structure is a subformat of PSF.
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Module file
Module files are a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems. Those who produce these files (using the software called trackers) and listen to them form the worldwide "MOD scene", a part of the Demoscene....
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Podcasting
A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication.
The mode of delivery differentiates podcasts from other ways of accessing media files over the Internet, such...
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GBA Sound Format
GSF is an emulated Game Boy Advance audio format based on Neill Corlett's PSF (Portable Sound Format), developed by Caitsith2 and Zoopd. GSF files appear as either .minigsf or .gsf, mostly being of the former. The .gsflib must be extracted into the...
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MP3 Surround
MP3 Surround is a type of MP3 that supports 5.1 channels of audio.
It was developed by Fraunhofer IIS in collaboration with Agere Systems and released in December 2004.
MP3 Surround is backward compatible with standard MP3. The data overhead is 16...
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M3U
M3U (presumably short for MP3 URL) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It was originally implemented in Winamp, although it is now supported by many applications.
An M3U file is a plain text file that contains the locations...
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PLS
PLS is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is a more expressive format than basic M3U, as it can store (cache) information on the song title and length (this is supported in extended M3U only). With PLS version 2, playlists...
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Capcom Q-Sound Format
The Capcom Q-Sound Format is based upon the Sony PlayStation Sound Format, with a few modifications. Designed to support lower-end consoles, such as the original PlayStation and older PCs, the QSF's data is stored in an uncompressed form. The PSF,...
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LPCM
Linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) is a method of encoding audio information digitally. The term also refers collectively to formats using this method of encoding. The term PCM, though strictly more general, is often used to describe data encoded...
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Quantization noise
Quantization noise is a noise error introduced by quantization in the analogue to digital conversion (ADC) process in telecommunication systems and signal processing. It is a rounding error between the analogue input voltage to the ADC and the...
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Autocast
Autocasting is an automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds. Autocasting software uses XML parsers, TTS (text-to-speech) engines, and audio conversion utilities to...
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Sega Saturn Sound Format
Sega Saturn Sound Format is the proposed title of a digital music format for encoding Sega Saturn music, similar to PlayStation Sound Format. Like the DSF (Dreamcast Sound Format), such a format has not been released yet.
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QCP
The QCP file format is used by many cellular telephone manufacturers for providing voice ring tones. It is based on RIFF, a generic format for storing chunks of data identified by tags. The QCP format does not specify how voice data in the file is...
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Windows Sound Recorder
Sound Recorder is an audio recording program included in Microsoft Windows.
Sound Recorder can record audio from a microphone or headset. In addition, many modern sound cards allow their output channels to be recorded through a loopback channel is...
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PCM adaptor
A PCM adaptor is a device used for recording digital audio in the PCM format, which in turn connects to a video cassette recorder (acting as a transport) for storage and playback of the digital audio information.
High-quality PCM audio requires a...
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DBFS
dBFS means "decibels relative to full scale". It is an abbreviation for decibel amplitude levels in digital systems which have a maximum available peak level; like PCM encoding.
0 dBFS is assigned to the maximum possible level. A signal that reaches...
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IAUDIO
iAUDIO is a brand of portable digital audio player produced by Cowon.
The iAudio range consists of players based on both flash memory and hard disk drives. Flash-based players are available with a capacity of up to 16GB. The hard disk drive based...
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MusicIndiaOnLine
MusicIndiaOnline is the largest Indian music portal on the web, amassing a huge wealth of anything relating to Indian movies and Indian Music.
On the web since 1997 (with its roots dating to 1995) delivering Indian Music to web listeners through...
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BWF
Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) is an extension of the popular Microsoft WAVE audio format and is the recording format of most file-based non-linear digital recorders used for motion picture, radio and television production.
It was first specified by...
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Pcengine HES sound format
HES (Hudson Entertainment System) files are music rips of PC Engine / TurboGrafx games. They are comparable to NSF files from the Nintendo Entertainment System. The HES sound format was devised by Takashi Mamiya in 1999.
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MMS podcast
An MMS podcast is a podcast show distributed via the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) protocol to mobile phones. The content makes use of MMS features such as being split into random-access chapters. The shows can be fetched on demand by the user,...
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Word sync
Word sync is a technique for synchronizing digital audio signals between high-end professional devices such as CD players, audio I/O cards etc. It allows all the components in the signal path to process the data and remain synchronized with each...
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Richmond Sound Design
Richmond Sound Design Ltd. is a theatre sound design and show control systems and software developer and manufacturer. It was founded in 1972 by Charlie Richmond. The company began as a manufacturer of specialty mixers and theatre sound design...
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Gens Sound Record
Gens Sound Record (GSR) is a new file format for the storage of Sega Genesis\Mega Drive music. It is more efficient than GYM in that the format stores DAC samples on an indexed table so they can be reused during the playback, avoiding redundancy and...
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IPodWizard
iPodWizard is an application for Microsoft Windows that lets users customize the appearance of their iPod's user interface. Originally developed by a member of the ipodhacks.com forums, it was extended by members of the iPodWizard.net forums. The...
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DIVA
DIVA is a series of digital audio players from Bulgarian company Daisy Multimedia. All models (except the Diva MP3, Music Pen) feature also digital FM radio tuner and possibility to record from microphone and the radio directly in MP3 format.
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MP3 SX
mp3 SX (Stereo eXtended) is a program that allows users to upgrade mp3 stereo files to MP3 Surround files. mp3 SX analyzes the existing natural ambience of the stereo material and plays it back through the rear channels. The sound sources remain in...
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Alesis ADAT HD24
The Alesis HD24 is a 24-track hard-disk audio recorder. It is the successor to the hugely successful tape based Alesis ADAT.
There are numerous advantages that the HD24 has over the tape-based ADATs. Primarily, the use of hard disks as storage...
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Ogg Drop
Ogg Drop is an Ogg Vorbis encoder for Mac OS which was inspired by oggdrop for Windows from the Xiph.Org Foundation. The program gets its name from its drag and drop functionality where files can be encoded/decoded by simply dragging and dropping...
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Midas XL8
The Midas XL8 is the first audio console by Midas to feature fully digital operation. The introduction of the console came after a long time of console competition by Yamaha's PM1D, Digidesign's D-show, and the DiGiCo D5.
Launched at the Frankfurt...
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Bit Rate Reduction
Bit Rate Reduction, or BRR, also called Bit Rate Reduced, is a name given to an audio compression method used on the SPC700 sound coprocessor used in the SNES. The method is a form of ADPCM.
BRR compresses each consecutive sequence of sixteen 16-bit...
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VGN Radio
Video Game News Radio (shortened to VGN Radio), is a weekly podcast that covers the topic of Video Games. From June 2006 until January 2009, the show was also known as Medispective, and covered a range of topics on electronic media in general,...
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The Tofu Hut
The Tofu Hut is a famous music weblog or MP3 blog run by John "Tofu" Seroff in New York City. It has been mentioned in Newsweek magazine.
Tofu Hut, TheTofu Hut, The
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Music-On-Demand
Music-On-Demand is a music distribution model conceived with the growth of two-way computing, telecommunications and the Internet in the early 1990s. Primarily, high-quality music is made available to purchase, access and play back using software on...
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RF64
RF64 is a BWF-compatible multichannel file format enabling file sizes to exceed 4 GiB. It has been specified by the European Broadcasting Union.
The file format is designed to meet the requirements for multichannel sound in broadcasting and audio...
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Cellcast
cellcasting means to produce and offer a media file by phone. The namecomprises the word "cellular" and "podcasting" (originally "broadcasting").A single cellcast can contain a series of audio pieces (episodes).
To produce a cellcast one need to...
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ProDigi
Mitsubishi's ProDigi is a professional audio, reel-to-reel, digital audio tape format with a stationary head position, similar to Sony's Digital Audio Stationary Head, which competed against ProDigi when the format was available in the mid 1980s...
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AES-EBU embedded timecode
AES-EBU embedded timecode is an embedded timecode format used to embed SMPTE timecode data within AES/EBU digital audio signals. It can be used for synchronization and for logging and identifying audio content.
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Shaping codes
Typical digital communication systems uses M-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation(QAM) to communicate thorough an analog channel (Specifically Channel with Gaussian noise). For Higher bit rates(M) the minimum Signal to Noise ratio (SNR) required by a QAM...
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ABX test
An ABX test is a method of comparing two kinds of sensory stimuli to identify detectable differences. A subject is presented with two known samples (sample A, the reference, and sample B, an alternative). Of these two samples, one is selected as the...
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ADX
ADX is a lossy proprietary audio storage and compression format developed by CRI Middleware specifically for use in video games, it is derived from ADPCM. Its most notable feature is a looping function that has proved useful for background music in...
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TDIF
The Tascam Digital Interface (TDIF) is a proprietary format connector defined by TASCAM that is unbalanced and uses a 25-pin D-sub cable to transmit and/or receive up to eight channels of digital audio between compatible devices. Unlike the ADAT...
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