Principles of Digital Audio

The third edition of this introduction to digital audio has been updated and features material on the myriad technologies transforming the field. It includes DAT, CD-1, 3DO, CD-Video, multimedia applications and perceptual coding theory.

Science & Math

Pohlmann, Ken C.

Physics

McGraw=Hill

Cash in on the hottest digital audio technologies. Through three bestselling editions, Ken C. PohlmannÆs Principles of Digital Audio has illuminated the frontiers of digital audio science, taking readers from fundamental principles to the state of the art. Since the last edition, digital audio technology and applications have expanded explosively - a situation well-reflected in the new fourth edition of this user-friendly guide by a leading digital audio engineer. You'll find fresh, tell-all treatments, both theoretical and practical of: PC audio - including IEEE 1394, USB, AC æ97, and DirectX; Internet audio ù especially MP3, SDMI, and RealNetworks G2 streaming audio; Low bit rate topics ù including MPEG-2, AAC, MPEG-4, Dolby Digital, and PAC; DVD ù DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, recordable DVD, UDF, and MLP; Television and radio broadcasting topics ù ATSC DTV, AM-IOBC and FM-IBOC (including USA Digital Radio and LDR prototypes); New compact disc topics, such as CD-R, CD-RW, and Super Audio CD. You'll also get valuable insights into new AES standards, jitter, sound cards, data compression, digital audio extraction, watermarking, and much more.

McGraw-Hill Professional

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Handbook of Sound Studio Construction: Rooms for Recording and Listening

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

McGraw Hill TAB

The Compact Disc Handbook (Computer Music & Digital Audio) (Computer Music and Digital Audio)

Arts & Photography

Music

Oxford University Press

Discover the creative and career possibilities of writing for new media 
The market in new media is booming, and writers are scrambling to take advantage of myriad new opportunities. If you've ever thought about producing a CD-ROM, creating a Web page, or writing interactive content for any of the new electronic media, this is the book for you. Written in down-to-earth, nontechnical language that even computer novices will understand, this unique guide gives you the knowledge and skills you need to write for all forms of digital media —including CD-ROMs, Web pages, and online magazines. Writing for New Media will bring you up to speed on: <ul>
<li>Learning to think interactively</li> <li>Integrating multimedia elements into your work</li> <li>Designing flowcharts and writing interactive script</li> <li>Mastering interactive storytelling—including story branching and the psychology of interactive characters</li> <li>Utilizing key terms and concepts—hot spots, pop-ups, rollovers, navigation, screen metaphors, and inouns and iverbs</li> <li>Presenting your interactive idea to a developer or publisher</li> <li>Adapting linear material for new media and much more</li> </ul>

Writing for New Media: The Essential Guide to Writing for Interactive Media, Cd-Roms, and the Web (WILEY BOOKS FOR WRITERS SERIES)

Bonime, Andrew

Literature & Fiction

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Principles of digital audio

H.W. Sams

History & Criticism

Sams.

Advanced Digital Audio

Technology

The third edition of this introduction to digital audio has been updated and features material on the myriad technologies transforming the field. It includes DAT, CD-1, 3DO, CD-Video, multimedia applications and perceptual coding theory.

Knowledge Industry Pubns

This is a new edition, in paperback, of Ken Pohlmann's classic survey of the compact disc world, The Compact Disc: A Handbook of Theory and Use, and celebrates the tenth birthday of possibly the most successful consumer electronics product ever introduced. The phenomenal success of the compact disc - currently over a billion copies are sold each year - has encouraged rapid development of compact disc technology and spawned entirely new applications for it. The text of this new edition has been thoroughly overhauled to take note of all these developments; in addition there is more information on the laboratory origins of the compact disc and the principles underlying the format. It remains a comprehensive and authoritative handan acknowledged expert on digital audio and related topics.

The Compact Disc Handbook (Computer Music & Digital Audio Series)

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