Archive for January, 2010

Encoding uncompressed audio with FLAC in C#

11 Comments Published January 8th, 2010 in Programming

Why lossless?
Lossless audio is used on various media, including studio masters, CD, DVD-Audio (via MLP) and Blu-ray (via Dolby TrueHD, which is technically a rebrand of and an extension to MLP, and DTS-HD Master Audio). All of these, when decoded, will result in a pulse-code modulated signal identical to the source, unlike the popular MP3 […]

Indicating progress in console windows

0 Comments Published January 5th, 2010 in Programming

Command-line interface tools. We usually prefer to write these when we need a lightweight application to get work done.
Some operations can be lengthy, or we simply want to present the a visual indicator of progress to the user. For this purpose I usually update Console.Title for simplicity’s sake.
However, if the tool is intended for a […]

2010

1 Comment Published January 5th, 2010 in Media, Programming

I’d like to wish everyone a very happy and successful new year!
This month I will be posting useful code snippets and a series on high-definition audio.
I would like to focus on the now-popular Blu-ray disc format and decoding DTS-HD Master Audio streams to PCM and compressing with the open-source FLAC codec in C#. The next […]

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