Flashcards: Digital audio

Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as color banding in images.

Direct-Stream Digital (DSD) is the trademark name used by Sony and Philips for their system of digitally recreating audible signals for the Super Audio CD (SACD).

Dolby Pro Logic is a surround sound processing technology developed by Dolby Laboratories, designed to decode soundtracks encoded with Dolby Surround.

iTunes Ping, also known simply as Ping, was a software-based, music-oriented social networking and recommender system service developed and operated by Apple Inc.

Digital media players (DMP) are home entertainment consumer electronics devices first introduced in 2000 that can connect to a home network to stream digital media (such as digital music, digital photos, or digital video).

FairPlay is a digital rights management (DRM) technology created by Apple Inc.

Winamp is a media player for Windows, Android, and OS X developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold it to Radionomy in January 2014.

Developed by Sony Network Entertainment, Media Go is a free multimedia management application that runs on Microsoft Windows.

Style Jukebox is a hi-fi High-resolution_audio cloud music streaming and storage player for the Windows, iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms.

The Environmental Audio Extensions (or EAX) are a number of digital signal processing presets for audio, present in Creative Technology's later Sound Blaster sound cards and the Creative NOMAD/Creative ZEN product lines.

iTunes (/ˈaɪtjuːnz/ or /ˈaɪtuːnz/) is a media player, media library, online radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc.

Real-Time AudioSuite (RTAS) is a format of audio plug-in developed by Digidesign, currently Avid Technology for their Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered systems, although they can be run on Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools TDM systems.

Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music and Zune Music and also known as Microsoft Groove) is a digital music streaming service developed by Microsoft that offers music streaming through subscription or purchase through the Windows Store.

ADX is a lossy proprietary audio storage and compression format developed by CRI Middleware specifically for use in video games; it is derived from ADPCM.

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) (originally named Digital Home Working Group [DHWG]) was founded by a group of consumer electronics companies in June 2003 (with Sony in the lead role) to develop and promote a set of interoperability guidelines for sharing digital media among multimedia devices under the auspice of a certification standard.

Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.

The Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) is a magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the standard analog Compact Cassette.

Wiseband is a music online service for music artists and labels released in 2013 in France.

Klotz Digital AG was a manufacturer of audio media products based in Munich, Germany.

The RVU Alliance (RVUA) is a standards body created to manage the RVU protocol standard as used by manufacturers of consumer electronics to allow entertainment devices within the home to share their content with each other across a home network.

TuneCore is a Brooklyn, New York-based independent digital music distribution service, founded in 2005.

Blinkbox Music (formerly We7) was a free, advertising supported, music streaming service, with over 12 million tracks available for streaming in the UK and Ireland, with content from all four major record labels, and most independent labels and distributors.

We Are Hunted was a Brisbane based software company that developed proprietary search technology which continuously scanned the Internet to identify the hottest new music in the world.

Music Online Records is one of the oldest and biggest music portals in Brazil.

liquid spins is a media player application, developed by MAXD.

WaTunes was a social music service founded in 2006 by American songwriter and entrepreneur Kevin Rivers.

AWAL UK Ltd is a UK-based digital distribution and label services company, founded in 1997 by Denzyl Feigelson.

Linear Acoustic is an American company based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that develops technology and manufacturers equipment used by television stations, cable television and satellite television services providers, post-production facilities and other content services providers to control, measure, manage and monitor multi-channel digital audio.

PonoMusic is a company founded by Neil Young which sells an audio player (the PonoPlayer), and high-quality recordings (through the PonoMusic store).

TRANCE FM (TFM ), an Internet radio based Music playing various types of Trance, was founded in 2008.

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

Music Reports is a Delaware corporation that serves individuals and organizations seeking expertise and solutions in music rights licensing, administration, royalty accounting, and related SaaS development and hosting.

Musicadium was a global digital music and video distribution service that operated between 2006 and mid-2010, based in Brisbane, Australia, until they were bought over by Valleyarm.

In digital audio, 44,100 Hz (alternately represented as 44.1 kHz) is a common sampling frequency.

POW-R (Psychoacoustically Optimized Wordlength Reduction) is a set of commercial dithering and noise shaping algorithms used in digital audio bit-depth reduction.

Soundcast LLC is a privately funded company that creates wireless audio technologies for the consumer & commercial markets.

Soundstream Inc. was the first audiophile digital audio recording company, providing commercial services for recording and computer-based editing.

Coding Technologies AB was a Swedish technology company that pioneered the use of spectral band replication in Advanced Audio Coding.

The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks was a software company in the United States.

First launched in 1999, Epitonic is a source for independent music across multiple genres from both signed and unsigned artists.

Expensive Tape Recorder is a digital audio program written by David Gross while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Feiyr is the worst digital music distribution service founded in 2005.

Voxound is a music web site that offers streaming through YouTube videos and plays local files through the use of a downloadable daemon.

ONErpm (ONE Revolution People's Music) is a digital distribution service and fan engagement platform founded in 2010 by Emmanuel Zunz and Matthew Olim, the latter one of the co-founders of CDNow, a pioneer in digital music which was acquired by Amazon in 2000.

Digital audio is technology that can be used to record, store, generate, manipulate, and reproduce sound using audio signals that have been encoded in digital form.

Francis Fan Lee (李凡, born January 28, 1927) is an inventor, entrepreneur, and professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

FreeCast is a free software application which allows peer-to-peer streaming, sometimes called peercasting.

Omnifone was an independent provider of cloud-based unlimited music services to consumer electronics vendors, mobile carriers, Internet service providers and consumer brands including RIM, Sony, HP, and rara.

(Not to be confused with slotMusic.) slotRadio was a music format delivered on a memory card (flash memory).

Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals.

MusicDigi is an online music distribution company, with one of the largest music catalogs in the world.

AllJoyn was a collaborative open source software framework that allows devices to communicate with other devices around them.

Mood Media Corporation was created after the acquisition of Mood Media by Fluid Music Canada, Inc.

WiMP is a music streaming service.

SoundFont is a brand name that collectively refers to a file format and associated technology that uses sample-based synthesis to play MIDI files.

MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies.

SynthFont is a commercial MIDI editor and "MIDI to Waveform" converter, developed by European software developer Kenneth Rundt

Juice is a podcast aggregator for Windows and OS X used for downloading media files such as ogg and mp3 for playback on the computer or for copying to a digital audio player.

MP3 Surround is an extension of MP3 for multi-channel audio support including 5.

RAW Audio format or just RAW Audio is an audio file format for storing uncompressed audio in raw form.

Digital Media Academy (commonly referred to as "DMA") is a digital art and technology training company, located in Los Gatos, CA, offering Stanford University Continuing Studies accredited courses for adults as well as summer camp programs for kids, age 6-18, computer camps and tech camps at several universities in the US and Canada.

Saavn, LLC is an American digital distributor of English, Bollywood and regional Indian music in over 200 countries.

ArtistAloud.com was launched by Hungama Digital Media as a digital distribution platform for unreleased music created by artists.

Altacast (formerly known as Edcast and Oddcast) is a free and open source audio encoder that can be used to create Internet streams of varying types.