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ATRAC, the Glossary

Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony.^[1]

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Audiovisual introductions in 1992

Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. ATRAC and Advanced Audio Coding are audio codecs.

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Ambisonics

Ambisonics is a full-sphere surround sound format: in addition to the horizontal plane, it covers sound sources above and below the listener.

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ARM architecture family

ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.

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An ATRAC CD is a compressed audio optical disc containing compressed digital audio in the ATRAC3 or ATRAC3plus formats, which are part of Sony's ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) family of proprietary audio compression algorithms. ATRAC and ATRAC CD are Sony products.

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Audio codec

An audio codec, or audio decoder is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio. ATRAC and audio codec are audio codecs.

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Audio file format

An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system.

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Audiokinetic Wwise

Wwise (Wave Works Interactive Sound Engine) is Audiokinetic's software for interactive media and video games, available for free to non-commercial users and under license for commercial video game developers.

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Bitrate peeling

Bitrate peeling is a technique used in Ogg Vorbis audio encoded streams, wherein a stream can be encoded at one bitrate but can be served at that or any lower bitrate.

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Blinded experiment

In a blind or blinded experiment, information which may influence the participants of the experiment is withheld until after the experiment is complete.

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Codec

A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. ATRAC and compact disc are Japanese inventions.

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.

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Digital signal processor

A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing.

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Dolby TrueHD

Dolby TrueHD is a lossless, multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories for home video, used principally in Blu-ray Disc and compatible hardware.

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DTS (company)

DTS, Inc. (originally Digital Theater Systems) is an American company. ATRAC and DTS (company) are audio codecs.

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DTS-HD Master Audio

DTS-HD Master Audio (DTS-HD MA; known as DTS++ before 2004) is a multi-channel, lossless audio codec developed by DTS as an extension of the lossy DTS Coherent Acoustics codec (DTS CA; usually itself referred to as just DTS).

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FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams.

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Fixed-point arithmetic

In computing, fixed-point is a method of representing fractional (non-integer) numbers by storing a fixed number of digits of their fractional part.

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FLAC

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation.

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FMOD

FMOD is a proprietary sound effects engine and authoring tool for video games and applications developed by Firelight Technologies.

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Frequency

Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

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GSM

The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.

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Hi-MD

Hi-MD is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage format. ATRAC and Hi-MD are Sony products.

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ITunes

iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music.

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LAME

LAME is a software encoder that converts digital audio into the MP3 audio coding format.

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Lossy compression

In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data compression methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content.

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Low-pass filter

A low-pass filter is a filter that passes signals with a frequency lower than a selected cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.

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Memory Stick

The Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, originally launched by Sony in late 1998. ATRAC and memory Stick are Sony products.

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MiniDisc

MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio. ATRAC and MiniDisc are Audiovisual introductions in 1992, Japanese inventions and Sony products.

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MIPS architecture

MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995).

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Modified discrete cosine transform

The modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) is a transform based on the type-IV discrete cosine transform (DCT-IV), with the additional property of being lapped: it is designed to be performed on consecutive blocks of a larger dataset, where subsequent blocks are overlapped so that the last half of one block coincides with the first half of the next block.

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Monaural sound

Monaural sound or monophonic sound (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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Mora (music store)

is an online music and video store for the Japanese market operated by Sony Music Solutions, a part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ).

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries. ATRAC and MP3 are audio codecs.

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MPEG-4 SLS

MPEG-4 SLS, or MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless as per ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd 3:2006 (Scalable Lossless Coding), is an extension to the MPEG-4 Part 3 (MPEG-4 Audio) standard to allow lossless audio compression scalable to lossy MPEG-4 General Audio coding methods (e.g., variations of AAC).

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NXP ColdFire

The NXP ColdFire is a microprocessor that derives from the Motorola 68000 family architecture, manufactured for embedded systems development by NXP Semiconductors.

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OpenMG

OpenMG is a digital rights management (DRM) system developed by Sony for managing and protecting digital music data on a personal computer.

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OptimFROG

OptimFROG is a proprietary, lossless audio codec developed by Florin Ghido.

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Opus (audio format)

Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed to efficiently code speech and general audio in a single format, while remaining low-latency enough for real-time interactive communication and low-complexity enough for low-end embedded processors.

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Panasonic

is a Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.

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PlayStation

is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines. ATRAC and PlayStation are Sony products.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATRAC

Also known as .atrac, ATRAC 3, ATRAC-3, ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding.

, Sharp Corporation, Signal, SonicStage, Sony, Sony Connect, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Sony Mobile, Stereophonic sound, Sub-band coding, UMTS, Vaio, Vorbis, Walkman, WavPack.

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