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TECHNICAL WEB LINKS

Wikipedia - Technical definition of the MP3 standard, it's history, an in-depth discussion of quality issues and some view of the future of the MP3 lossy compression format.
List of Codecs - A complete and up-to-date list of codac standards from Wikipedia.
Fraunhofer IIS - German inventor and standard setting team of original MP3 in 1991 offers downloadable white papers, MP3 Surround software and much more.
Xiph.org - Non-profit organization offering FREE software such as Vorbis Audio codec, FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and Icecast Streaming server
Dolby Laboratories - www.dolby.com/digital
DTS Professional Audio - www.dtsonline.com/technology/technical_literature.php
Fraunhofer Institute - www.iis.fhg.de/amm/techinf/index.html
Meridian Audio - www.meridian-audio.com/m_mlp_in.htm
MPEG.org - www.mpeg.org/MPEG/mp3.html
Sony - www.sony.co.jp/en/Products/ATRAC
 

BOOKS

The Data Compression Book
   by Mark Nelson and Jean-Luc Gailly (Hungry Minds, Inc., 1995)
Data Compression: The Complete Reference
   by David Salomon (Springer Verlag, 2000)
Digital Video and Audio Compression
   by Stephen J. Solari (McGraw-Hill Profession Publishing, 1997)
Introduction to Data Compression
   by Khalid Sayood (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000)
The MPEG Handbook: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
   by John Watkinson (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001)
MPEG Video: Compression Standard
   by Joan L. Mitchell, editor (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996)

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