Written CD-Rs and CD-RWs are, from a technical standpoint, fully compatible with the Audio CD ( Red Book ) and CD-ROM ( Yellow Book ) standards, although some hardware compatible with Red Book CDs may have difficulty reading CD-Rs and especially CD-RWs.

However, the sound quality falls short of the standards common with SACDs ( Super Audio CD ) and also that of audiophile CDs from companies such as Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab.

The system can also play Audio CDs.

The first Philips CD-i player, released in 1991 and initially priced around USD $ 700, is capable of playing interactive CD-i discs, Audio CDs, CD + G ( CD + Graphics ), Karaoke CDs, and Video CDs ( VCDs ), though the last requires an optional " Digital Video Card " to provide MPEG-1 decoding.

Audio CDs do not use WAV as their sound format, using instead Red Book audio.

Red Book is the standard for audio CDs ( Compact Disc Digital Audio system, CDDA or CD-DA ).

Audio CDs can be ripped as WMA or WMA 10 Pro ( WMA 10 Pro in WMP 11 and later ) at 48, 64, 96, 128, 160 and 192 kbit / s, WMA lossless ( 470 to 940 kbit / s ) ( 9 Series on XP and later ), WMA variable bitrate ( from 40-75 kbit / s up to 240-355 kbit / s ), MP3 at 128, 192, 256 and 320 kbit / s, or uncompressed WAV ( WAV ripping in WMP 11 and later ).

* CDs, Audio cassettes, DVDs, and videos ( including video rentals )

Audio drama, whether newly produced or OTR classics, can be found on CDs, cassette tapes, podcasts, webcasts and conventional broadcast radio.

It ( and its later versions such as the PCM-1610 and 1630 ) was widely used for the production and mastering of some of the first Digital Audio CDs in the early 1980s.

Other examples include dbx, Inc .' s Model 700 system, which, similar to modern Super Audio CDs, used a high sample-rate delta-sigma modulation rather than PCM ; Decca's 1970s PCM system, which used a videotape recorder manufactured by IVC for a transport ; and Mitsubishi's X-80 digital recorder, a 6. 4 mm ( ¼ in ) open reel digital mastering format that used a very unusual sampling rate of 50. 4 kHz.

Audiophiles play music from a wide variety of sources including phonograph records, compact discs ( CDs ), and digital audio file formats that are uncompressed as well as ones that are compressed using lossless data compression such as FLAC, Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless and Apple Lossless ( ALAC ).

Pristine Audio has released two CDs of Herrmann's radio broadcasts.

Uncompressed media ( such as on Laserdiscs, Audio CDs, and WAV files ) or losslessly compressed media ( such as FLAC or PNG ) do not suffer from compression artifacts.

Audio recordings for self-study use many of the methods used in classroom teaching, and have been produced on records, tapes, CDs, DVDs and websites.

* Evaluating New Copy-Prevention Techniques for Audio CDs

* Pit Signal Processing, a copy protection measure used on Super Audio CDs

* Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.

* Ripping Audio CDs, Video CDs, Video DVDs

** Copy Audio CDs

** Copy Enhanced Audio CDs ( CD-Extra )

* TTA-The True Audio, real-time lossless audio codec.

Audio signal processing, sometimes referred to as audio processing, is the intentional alteration of auditory signals, or sound, often through an audio effect or effects unit.

Audio broadcasting ( be it for television or audio broadcasting ) is perhaps the biggest market segment ( and user area ) for audio processing products — globally.

Audio unprocessed by reverb and delay is metaphorically referred to as " dry ", while processed audio is referred to as " wet ".

Audio CD is an umbrella term that refers to many standards of means of playing back audio on a CD.

* Bedini Audio Spectral Enhancer, an audio signal processor used in the early 1990s

* In-Theater Audio Commentary, viewing a film in a theater while listening to commentary on a portable audio player

* Cambridge Audio, a manufacturer of audio equipment

Audio data compression, as distinguished from dynamic range compression, has the potential to reduce the transmission bandwidth and storage requirements of audio data.

Audio compression algorithms are implemented in software as audio codecs.

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When the music is stored in an audio file format that is lossless such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio or WMA Lossless, the computer playback of recorded audio can serve as an audiophile-quality source for a hi-fi system.

Audio latency is the delay between when an audio signal enters and when it emerges from a system.

It includes the popular MPEG-1 Audio Layer III ( MP3 ) audio compression format.

# Audio ( compressed audio content )

The even-lower bitrates were introduced because tests showed that MPEG-1 Audio could provide higher quality than any existing ( circa 1994 ) very low bitrate ( i. e. speech ) audio codecs.

The MPEG-2 Audio section, defined in Part 3 ( ISO / IEC 13818-3 ) of the standard, enhances MPEG-1's audio by allowing the coding of audio programs with more than two channels, up to 5. 1 multichannel.

AAC is more efficient than the previous MPEG audio standards, and is in some ways less complicated than its predecessor, MPEG-1 Audio, Layer 3, in that it does not have the hybrid filter bank.

; Part 3: Audio – compression codec for perceptual coding of audio signals.

A multichannel-enabled extension and extension of bit rates and sample rates for MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, II and III of MPEG-1 audio.