Audio

  Tuesday, 18 March 2003

AES Conference to Focus on Multichannel Audio New York City (March 19, 2003)--On June 26, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) will kick off three days of intensive presentations and discussions on the present and future of multichannel audio at its 24th International Conference. [ProSound News] 9:19:05 PM   . .

Dolby, Texas Instruments Collaborate San Francisco (March 19, 2003)--Dolby Laboratories and Texas Instruments (TI) have jointly sponsored the design and development of a device that allows consumers to easily connect PCs with 1394 connectors to their home theater systems. [ProSound News] 9:17:58 PM   . .

AACelerator 1.0 encodes audio files into MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) audio files using QuickTime 6 Pro (which is required). Features include encoding of entire folders, drag-and-drop encoding, QuickTime annotations (ID3 tags), and an option to embed both basic and optimized hinted streaming tracks for the QuickTime Streaming Server. AACelerator is $12 for Mac OS X and requires a registered version of QuickTime 6 Pro [Macintouch] 9:16:31 PM   . .