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Contents
Digital Audio in the Library
Richard Griscom
June 2006
version 1.09 [18 July 2006]
Contents
Preface
Scope and Organization
Acknowledgments
Digital Audio Technology
Fundamentals of Recorded Sound
Analog and Digital Sound
Capturing Sound
Reproducing Sound
Speakers
Fundamentals of Digital Audio
Concepts
Sampling
Formats for Digital Audio
Terminology
Structure of an audio file
Open and proprietary formats
Uncompressed formats
PCM
Sun/NeXT (extension
.au
or
.snd
)
AIFF (extension
.aiff
or
.aif
)
WAVE (extension
.wav
)
Compressed formats
``Lossless'' Compression
Open formats
Proprietary Formats
``Lossy'' Compression
MPEG
Proprietary Formats
Open Format
Delivery to the Listener
Accessing Digital Audio Files
Downloading (by John Anderies)
Streaming
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks
Podcasting (by John Anderies)
Software for Playback
Common Audio Players
Hardware and Software to Support Digital Audio
Equipment
Encoding workstation
Audio components
Servers
Software (by John Anderies)
Digital Audio in the Library
Sources for Digital Audio Recordings
Digitizing Library Local Collections
Curricular Listening
Streaming Service
Creating and Managing the Sound Files
Encoding
User interface
Staffing
Appendix
Resources for Questions on Copyright
For Further Reading on Copyright
U.S. Copyright Law
Overviews
Electronic Reserves
Preservation
Glossary
Bibliography
General
Digital audio formats
General
FLAC
Monkey's Audio
MPEG
Ogg Vorbis
Quicktime
RealAudio
Windows Media
Servers
Operating Systems
Streaming Server Software
Preservation
Metadata
ID3
Peer-to-Peer Networks
Subscription Services
Portable Digital Audio Players
Digital Audio in Libraries
Digital Audio and Culture
Digital Audio and the Recording Industry
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
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Richard Griscom 2006-07-19
