Audio coding artifacts: What to listen for

2/20/2008 2:01 PM EST

The CD presents the underlying principles of perceptual audio coding - a technique used in lossy compression to eliminate sounds in digital audio content that theoretically cannot be perceived by the human ear - along with a variety of examples of coding artifacts, sorted according to type and severity.

The CD includes a total of three tutorials on audio coding principles and eight different chapters on audio coding artifacts. It's the first such educational/tutorial CD-ROM from the AES, and is available for $20.00 for non-members, $15.00 for members, $15.00 for student non-members and $10.00 for student members.

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