Web Directory

» AES Publications
   All available articles and documents from the Journal of Audio Engineering Society with search tool including a CD about coding artifacts.
   http://www.aes.org/publications/

» Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
   Book by Mark Kahrs and Karlheinz Brandenburg.
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792381300

» Audio Research Labs
   ARL is a commercial laboratory involved in subjective quality assessment methods like preparing and analyzing codec comparisons for 3GPP.
   http://www.audioresearchlabs.com/

» Coding Technologies
   Company that invented Spectral Band Replication (SBR) and combined it with MP3 (mp3PRO) and AAC (aacPlus or HE AAC).
   http://www.codingtechnologies.com/

» Digital Radio Mondiale
   DRM is a world-wide initiative to use analog AM radio for digital sound and services implementing aacPlus at very low bitrates, often mixed up with Digital Rights Management for copy protection.
   http://www.drm.org/

» Doom9
   Besides this forum for audio codecs there are others for container formats and video encoding in general with FAQs.
   http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?forumid=11

» Fraunhofer IIS
   Information about the different parts of MPEG-4 Natural or General Audio (GA) from one of the inventors of these formats, see also their page about MPEG-2 AAC.
   http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/mpeg4/audio.html

» Hydrogen Audio
   Forum about audio coding in general with two separate boards for AAC.
   http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/

» IBM Composite Media Group
   Overview of their implementation and contribution to the MPEG-4 standard, especially for the Systems part.
   http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/mpeg4/Projects/

» ISO/IEC
   Publicly available standards from the International Organization for Standardization including MPEG-4 with 14496-5 containing the Audio, Visual and Systems parts.
   http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

» Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards
   Book by Marina Bosi and Richard E. Goldberg.
   http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-1-4020-7357-1

» MP4-SA Developer Tools
   John Lazarro and John Wawrzynek from the CS Division, UC Berkeley provide tutorials, downloads, manuals and links related to the Structured Audio format.
   http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/

» MPEG4.net
   Resource for news, information and products about MPEG-4, H.264, Windows Media, High-Definition, Streaming Media and related technologies.
   http://www.mpeg4.net/

» MPEG4.net Events
   Upcoming MPEG-4 and Streaming Media related calendar of events.
   http://www.mpeg4.net/rss/mp4events.xml

» MPEG4.net News
   The latest headlines about MPEG-4, Windows Media, Streaming Media and related technologies.
   http://www.mpeg4.net/rss/mp4news.xml

» MPEG4.net Press releases
   Announcements of new products from companies or events from organizations related to MPEG-4 and other technologies.
   http://www.mpeg4.net/rss/mp4press.xml

» MPEG4.net Resources
   New sources of information like web sites, documentation or tests for MPEG-4 and related technologies.
   http://www.mpeg4.net/rss/mp4resource.xml

» Machine Listening
   Reading list for an MIT seminar, most of the mentioned publications are directly available on their web server or linked to Amazon's book section.
   http://web.media.mit.edu/~tristan/Classes/MAS.945/technical.html

» Mayah
   Hard- and software company for professional broadcasting products with AAC/MP4 support.
   http://www.mayah.com/

» Mobiledia
   Reviews, articles and forum discussions about cell phones capable of AAC/MP4/3GP playback (also called "iTunes" format sometimes, use the site search).
   http://www.mobiledia.com/

» Mp4-tech
   The web archive of the public MPEG Industry Forum mailing list with many knowledgeable participants from companies like FhG, Apple and Microsoft.
   http://lists.mpegif.org/pipermail/mp4-tech/

» Nokia developer forum
   Platform to support the implementation of their software SDKs including AAC/MP4.
   http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/

» Principles of digital audio
   Book by Ken C. Pohlmann.
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071348190

» QuickTime development
   Apple offers technical FAQs, knowledge base and publicly available documentation files including the MOV file format.
   http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/

» Speech Synthesis Examples
   Many TTS demos in several languages from different systems with links to their homepages.
   http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~moehler/synthspeech/

» Telos Systems
   Hardware manufacturer of the Zephyr ISDN codecs for radio and television broadcasters providing articles and brochures about different AAC implementations.
   http://www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/

» Text-To-Speech Synthesis
   Bell Labs' / Lucent Technologies multi-lingual TTS demos and introduction to this coding method.
   http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/

» Tuner2
   List of internet radio stations using aacPlus for their low bitrate streams, among them SomaFM.com and Boomer Radio.
   http://www.tuner2.com/

» Via Licensing
   Patent pool administrator for AAC with FAQs and overviews of royalty fees for commercial implementations.
   http://www.vialicensing.com/