Today I am starting my post-semester activities. Not that all grading is finished yet, and all administrative meetings are over for a while, but we had the last part of the official teaching program yesterday, so now I at least feel that the university summer has started. This means that I will (finally) start focusing more on doing research again, and I have several papers that I will try to finish over the coming months. ...
The term paper MP3: Friend of the Youth or Enemy of the Sound? A discussion of different sound formats and problems with sound compression was submitted to “Musikkvitenskap mellomfag” at the University of Oslo, spring 2000. Abstract The paper starts with presenting some of the concepts behind digital audio compression, before describing some of the most popular sound formats available today: the different standards in the MPEG-family, RealAudio, ATRAC, MS Audio, SACD and DVD Audio. The author argues that there are lots of positive aspects of sound compression, but perhaps this overwhelming popularity will limit the development of new and better standards, like Super Audio CD or DVD Audio. ...