The last few years have shown widespread proliferation of .mp3 files from both legal and illegal sources. Yet most people using these audio files do not know much about audio compression and how to use it. The paper includes an introduction to audio compression for music file exchange. Beyond the basics, the focus is on quality issues and compression ratio/audio bandwidth/artifacts tradeoffs.

Author: Brandenburg, Karlheinz
Affiliation: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits FhG-IIS A, Erlangen, Germany
AES Conference: 17th International Conference: High-Quality Audio Coding (September 1999)
Paper Number: 17-009
Publication Date: September 1, 1999
Subject: High Quality Audio Coding

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