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Explore: MPEG-4, Audio Formats

Since MPEG-4 is a comprehensive multimedia standard, this category lists sites about several audio formats, all being part of MPEG-4 Audio. "Natural" coding of sound: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC, also its MPEG-2 version), TwinVQ (aka VQF), CELP, Param...
This page was last updated on September 27th, 2008
MPEG-4 (from Audio Formats)
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Ross Bencina  Structured AudioRoss Bencina Structured Audio
The writer of AudioMulch, free soundsynthesis software, offers a SAOL/SASL reference guide and decoder resources.
Everwicked.comEverwicked.com
Comprehensive guides, a forum and other resources about audio/digital video coding and streaming.
AppleApple
Overview of their implementation and contribution to the MPEG-4 standard.
Via LicensingVia Licensing
Patent pool administrator for AAC with FAQs and overviews of royalty fees for commercial implementations.
Tuner2Tuner2
List of internet radio stations using aacPlus for their low bitrate streams, among them SomaFM.com and Boomer Radio.
Fraunhofer IISFraunhofer IIS
Information about the different parts of MPEG-4 Natural or General Audio (GA) from one of the inventors of these formats, see also their page about MPEG-2 AAC.
MPEG-4 Structured AudioMPEG-4 Structured Audio
Technical information and developer resources from the Machine Listening Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, the official homepage for this format maintained by Eric Scheirer.
Structured Audio Open GroupStructured Audio Open Group
The main goal of the SAOG was to implement Structured Audio (SA) in open source applications offering a portal for their users with forum and downloads of samples and software.
Doom9Doom9
Besides this forum for audio codecs there are others for container formats and video encoding in general with FAQs.
MPEG LAMPEG LA
Patent pool administrator for the MPEG-4 Systems part of the standard including the MP4 file format.
MPEG4.netMPEG4.net
Resource for news, information and products about MPEG-4, H.264, Windows Media, High-Definition, Streaming Media and related technologies.
Nokia developer forumNokia developer forum
Platform to support the implementation of their software SDKs including AAC/MP4.
Machine ListeningMachine Listening
Reading list for an MIT seminar, most of the mentioned publications are directly available on their web server or linked to Amazon's book section.
MPEG AudioMPEG Audio
Official site of this MPEG subgroup with FAQs for the different standards, publicly available reference documents and software.
MobilediaMobiledia
Reviews, articles and forums about mobile phones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and other companies capable of AAC/MP4 playback.
Audiocoding.comAudiocoding.com
The open source project FAAC includes an AAC encoder and decoder (FAAD2) with source code packages, developer mailing list, knowledge base, news section and user forum.
Dissertation of Dr. Ye WangDissertation of Dr. Ye Wang
"Selected advances in audio compression and compressed domain processing", comprehensive overview of codecs for internet and mobile communication and new methods for their improvement.[PDF]
MP4-SA Developer ToolsMP4-SA Developer Tools
John Lazarro and John Wawrzynek from the CS Division, UC Berkeley provide tutorials, downloads, manuals and links related to the Structured Audio format.
Coding TechnologiesCoding Technologies
Company that invented Spectral Band Replication (SBR) and combined it with MP3 (mp3PRO) and AAC (aacPlus or HE AAC).
MayahMayah
Hard- and software company for professional broadcasting products with AAC/MP4 support.
Digital Radio MondialeDigital Radio Mondiale
DRM is a world-wide initiative to use analog AM radio for digital sound and services implementing aacPlus at very low bitrates.
Mp4-techMp4-tech
The web archive of the public MPEG Industry Forum mailing list with many knowledgeable participants from companies like FhG, Apple and Microsoft.
AES PublicationsAES Publications
All available articles and documents from the Journal of Audio Engineering Society with search tool including a CD about coding artifacts.
Hydrogen AudioHydrogen Audio
Forum about audio coding in general with two separate boards for AAC.
3GPP SA43GPP SA4
This working group of the 3GPP standardization organization deals with codecs like enhanced aacPlus used in mobile telecommunication.
Telos SystemsTelos Systems
Hardware manufacturer of the Zephyr ISDN codecs for radio and television broadcasters providing articles and brochures about different AAC implementations.
QuickTime developmentQuickTime development
Apple offers technical FAQs, knowledge base and publicly available documentation files including the MOV file format.
ISO/IECISO/IEC
Publicly available standards from the International Organization for Standardization including MPEG-4 with 14496-5 containing the Audio, Visual and Systems parts.
Roberto's listening testsRoberto's listening tests
Provides public group comparisons of several AAC codecs and other formats at different bitrates.
Faac.sourceforge.netFaac.sourceforge.net
The old Audiocoding.com forum is still available providing valuable content like FAAC compiling issues with its search tool.

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