AAC, or Advanced Audio Coding, is a lossy perceptual audio codec from the MPEG standards, widely used for streaming, video soundtracks and…
ALAC, the Apple Lossless Audio Codec, compresses digital audio to roughly half its size while restoring every original sample bit for bit…
Ambisonics is a spatial audio format that captures a full sphere of sound as spherical harmonic components, decoded later to speakers or…
Amplitude in acoustics is the size of a sound wave's variation from its resting value, which listeners perceive mainly as loudness.
Apple Podcasts is Apple's podcast directory and listening app, which indexes public RSS feeds and adds subscriptions, transcripts and creator analytics.
An audio buffer is a block of digital audio samples held in memory between hardware and software, trading processing safety against latency.
An audio interface is the recording device that converts microphone and instrument signals into digital audio for a computer and plays the…
Audio mastering is the final production stage that balances, finishes and prepares a mixed recording for consistent playback and release on every…