Archive for January, 2010



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 […]

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

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 […]