Contents

• 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
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography