[mus422] Compression book reference: Salomon 2007 "Data Compression: The Complete Reference"

[Craig Sapp]

Hi Music 422 Class,

Someone mentioned to me this hefty book on compression algorithms
(primarily lossless types):

http://www.davidsalomon.name/DC4advertis/DComp4Ad.html

Data Compression: The Complete Reference
4th Edition
By David Salomon. Published by Springer (Dec 2006). ISBN 1-84628-602-5.
LCCN QA76.9.D33 S25 2006. xxvii+1092 pages.

Here is a compression algorithm with an interesting name which was
added in the 4th edition:

12. Monkey's audio. Monkey's audio is a fast, efficient, free,
lossless audio compression algorithm and implementation that offers
error detection, tagging, and external support.

Other interesting sections new to the 4th edition:

2. FLAC (free, lossless audio compression). This is relatively new,
free, not as good as mp3, but offers higher quality. Some
documentation is available at
"http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html" and more was obtained
from Josh Coalson, FLAC's developer.

3. Advanced Audio Coding, AAC. This is an extension of mp3 and is also
referred to as mp4. Contrary to popular belief, AAC does not stand for
Apple Audio Compression.

10. Dolby AC3. AC-3, also known as Dolby Digital, stands for Dolby's
third-generation audio coder. AC-3 is a perceptual audio codec based
on the same principles as the three MPEG-1/2 layers and AAC.


-=+Craig