Glossary/hu

This page gives very brief explanations of technical terms related to digital audio, with some links to Wikipedia for much more comprehensive explanations.

JC: This is an experimental page. It's not yet linked to from any of the main pages so it won't be included in the manual. My intention is to first provide equivalent links in Hungarian for the Wikipedia links, where that's possible. Next step is to get some Hungarian alongside the English terms. At the moment (Nov 2009) this is a learning exercise for me, to learn some sound-engineering vocab in Hungarian. I will probably keep both English and Hungarian on this page for some considerable time. I am also using this to experiment with modifying the format for the glossary to be more useful to people learning another language.

Audio File Formats
There are numerous audio file formats for storing audio on a computer.
 * WAV format is widely used on Windows and is needed for creating an audio CD.
 * AIFF is widely used on Apple's operating systems.
 * Compressed formats are used on portable music players.