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==A==
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== A ==
* [[AAC]]
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* AAC → [[Advanced Audio Coding]]
* [[ABR]]
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* ABR → [[Average Bitrate]]
* [[ABX]]/[[ABX|ABX testing]]
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* [[Absolute Threshold of Hearing]]
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* [[ABX]] (testing)
 
* [[AC3]]
 
* [[AC3]]
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* [[Advanced Audio Coding]]
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* [[Advanced SCSI Programming Interface]]
 
* [[Aliasing]]
 
* [[Aliasing]]
 
* [[AltPresets]]
 
* [[AltPresets]]
 
* [[Ambisonics]]  
 
* [[Ambisonics]]  
 
* [[Amplitude]]
 
* [[Amplitude]]
* [[APE]] ([[Monkey's Audio]])
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* APE [[Monkey's Audio]]
* [[APE Tags]]
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* [[APE tags]]
* [[Artifact]]/[[Artifact|Distortion]]
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* [[Artifact]]
* [[ATH]] (Absolute Threshold of Hearing)
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* ATH → [[Absolute Threshold of Hearing]]
* [[ASPI]] (CD-ROM Installation)
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* ASIO → [[Audio Stream Input/Output]]
 
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* ASPI → [[Advanced SCSI Programming Interface]]
 
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* [[Audio Stream Input/Output]]
 
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* [[Average Bitrate]]
 
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==B==
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== B ==
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* Band reject → [[Bandstop filter]]
 
* [[Bandpass filter]]
 
* [[Bandpass filter]]
* [[Bandstop filter]]/[[Bandstop filter|Band reject]]
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* [[Bandstop filter]]
 
* [[Bandwidth]]
 
* [[Bandwidth]]
 
* [[Bark]]
 
* [[Bark]]
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* [[Bel]]
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* [[Bit depth]]
 
* [[Bit reservoir]]
 
* [[Bit reservoir]]
 
* [[Bitrate]]
 
* [[Bitrate]]
* [[Bit depth|Bits per sample]] / [[Bit depth]]
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* Bits per sample [[Bit depth]]
 
* [[Blind test]]
 
* [[Blind test]]
 
* [[Block switching]]
 
* [[Block switching]]
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* [[BSAC]] (Bit-sliced arithmetic coding)
  
 
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== C ==
 
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* CBR [[Constant Bitrate]]
 
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==C==
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* [[CBR]]/[[Constant bitrate]]/[[CBR|Constant bitrate coding]]
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* [[Channel coupling]]
 
* [[Channel coupling]]
 
* [[Clipping]]
 
* [[Clipping]]
 
* [[Codec]]
 
* [[Codec]]
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* [[Constant Bitrate]]
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* Constant bitrate coding → [[Constant Bitrate]]
 
* [[Container format]]
 
* [[Container format]]
 
* [[Critical band]]
 
* [[Critical band]]
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* [[C1/C2 errors]]
  
 
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== D ==
 
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* dB [[Bel]]
 
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==D==
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* [[dB]]/[[dB|Decibel]]
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* [[DC coefficient]]
 
* [[DC coefficient]]
* [[DCT]]
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* DCT → [[Discrete Cosine Transform]]
 
* [[DCT coefficient]]
 
* [[DCT coefficient]]
* [[Digital Radio Mondiale|DRM]] (Digital Radio Mondiale)
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* Decibel → [[Bel]]
* [[Digital Rights Management|DRM]] (Digital Rights Management)
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* [[Digital Radio Mondiale]]
* [[DSP]]
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* [[Digital Rights Management]]
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* [[Digital Signal Processor]]
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* [[Discrete Cosine Transform]]
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* Distortion → [[Artifact]]
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* [[Dither]]
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* DRM → [[Digital Radio Mondiale]]
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* DRM → [[Digital Rights Management]]
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* DSP → [[Digital Signal Processor]]
 
* [[DTS]]
 
* [[DTS]]
  
 
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== F ==
 
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* [[Fast Fourier Transform]]
 
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* FFT → [[Fast Fourier Transform]]
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==F==
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* [[FFT]]
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* [[Filterbank]]
 
* [[Filterbank]]
* [[FIR filter]] (Finite Impulse Response Filters)
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* [[Finite Impulse Response Filter]]s
* [[FLAC]]
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* FIR filter → Finite Impulse Response Filter
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* FLAC → [[Free Lossless Audio Codec]]
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* [[Free Lossless Audio Codec]]
 
* [[Frequency]]
 
* [[Frequency]]
 
* [[Frequency domain]]
 
* [[Frequency domain]]
  
 
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== H ==
 
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==H==
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* [[Harmonics]]
 
* [[Harmonics]]
 
* [[Highpass]]
 
* [[Highpass]]
 
* [[Huffman coding]]
 
* [[Huffman coding]]
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* [[HDMI]] (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
  
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== I ==
 
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* [[ID3]]
 
* [[ID3]]
* [[IIR filter]] (Infinite Impulse Response Filters)
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* IIR filter Infinite Impulse Response Filter
 
* [[Impulse]]
 
* [[Impulse]]
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* [[Infinite Impulse Response Filter]]s
 
* [[Intensity stereo]]
 
* [[Intensity stereo]]
 
* [[Inverse mix]]
 
* [[Inverse mix]]
  
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== J ==
 
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* [[Joint stereo]]
 
* [[Joint stereo]]
  
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== L ==
 
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* [[LFE]] (Low Frequency Extension)
 
* [[LFE]] (Low Frequency Extension)
* [[LPAC]]
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* [[Linear Predictive Coding]]
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* LPAC →  [[Lossless Predictive Audio Compression]]
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* [[LPC]] ([[Linear Predictive Coding]])
 
* [[Long block]]
 
* [[Long block]]
 
* [[Lossless]]
 
* [[Lossless]]
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* [[Lossless Predictive Audio Compression]]
 
* [[Lossy]]
 
* [[Lossy]]
 
* [[Lowpass]]
 
* [[Lowpass]]
* [[ATH|LTQ]] (Level of Threshold in Quiet)
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* LTQ (Level of Threshold in Quiet) → [[Absolute Threshold of Hearing]]
 
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==M==
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== M ==
 
* [[Masking]]
 
* [[Masking]]
* [[MDCT]]
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* MDCT → [[Modified Discrete Cosine Transform]]
 
* [[Metadata]]
 
* [[Metadata]]
 
* [[Mid-side stereo]]
 
* [[Mid-side stereo]]
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* [[Modified Discrete Cosine Transform]]
 
* [[Monkey's Audio]]
 
* [[Monkey's Audio]]
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* MP+ → [[Musepack]]
 
* [[MP3]] (MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3)
 
* [[MP3]] (MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3)
 
* [[MP3Pro]]
 
* [[MP3Pro]]
* [[Musepack|MPC]]/[[Musepack|MP+]]/[[Musepack]]/[[Musepack|Mpeg Plus]]
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* MPC [[Musepack]]
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* Mpeg Plus → [[Musepack]]
 
* [[Mpeg]] (Motion Picture Expert Group)
 
* [[Mpeg]] (Motion Picture Expert Group)
 
* [[MPEG-4]]
 
* [[MPEG-4]]
 
* [[Multichannel]]
 
* [[Multichannel]]
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* [[Musepack]]
  
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== N ==
 
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* [[Neural network]]
 
* [[Neural network]]
 
* [[Noise shaping]]
 
* [[Noise shaping]]
 
* [[Noise normalization]]  
 
* [[Noise normalization]]  
* [[Noise like signals]]
 
 
* [[Notch filter]]
 
* [[Notch filter]]
* [[Nyquist rate]]/[[Nyquist frequency]]/[[Nyquist sampling theorem]]
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* [[Nyquist frequency]]
 
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* [[Nyquist rate]]
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* [[Nyquist sampling theorem]]
  
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== O ==
 
* [[Ogg]]
 
* [[Ogg]]
* [[Ogg Vorbis]]
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* (Ogg) [[Vorbis]]
 
* [[OptimFROG]]
 
* [[OptimFROG]]
  
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== P ==
 
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* [[Parametric stereo]]
* [[Parametric stereo]]/[[PS]]
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* PCM → [[Pulse Code Modulation]]
* [[PCM]]
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* [[Perceptual Noise Substitution]]
* [[Point stereo]]  
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* PNS → Perceptual Noise Substitution
* [[Pre echo]]/[[Pre echo|Post echo]]
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* [[Point stereo]]
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* [[Post echo]]
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* [[Post-masking]]
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* [[Pre echo]]
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* [[Pre-masking]]
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* PS → [[Parametric stereo]]
 
* [[Psychoacoustic]]
 
* [[Psychoacoustic]]
* [[Psychoacoustic model]]
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* Psychoacoustic model → [[Psychoacoustic#Psychoacoustic model]]
* [[Pre-masking]]/[[Pre-masking|Post-masking]]
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* [[Pulse Code Modulation]]
  
==Q==
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== Q ==
 
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* [[Quantization]]
* [[Quantize]]/[[Quantizer]]/[[Quantization]]
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* [[Quantize]]
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* [[Quantizer]]
 
* [[Quantization noise]]
 
* [[Quantization noise]]
  
==R==
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== R ==
 
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* [[Range coding]]
 
* [[Range coding]]
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* [[Resampling]]
 
* [[Rice coding]]
 
* [[Rice coding]]
 
* [[Ringing]]
 
* [[Ringing]]
  
==S==
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== S ==
 
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* Sample rate → Sampling rate
* [[Sampling rate]]/[[Sampling rate|Sample rate]]/[[Sampling rate|Sampling frequency]]
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* Sampling frequency → Sampling rate
* [[SBR]] (Spectral Band Replication)
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* [[Sampling rate]]
* [[Scale factor]]/[[Scale factor|Scale factor band]]
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* SBR → [[Spectral Band Replication]]
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* [[Scale factor]]
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* Scale factor band → Scale factor
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* SHN → [[Shorten]]
 
* [[Short block]]
 
* [[Short block]]
* [[Shorten]] ([[SHN]])
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* [[Shorten]]
 
* [[Sigma Delta Modulation]]
 
* [[Sigma Delta Modulation]]
* [[SNR]] (Signal-to-Noise Ratio)
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* [[Signal-to-noise ratio]]
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* S/N → Signal-to-noise ratio
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* SNR → Signal-to-noise ratio
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* [[Spectral Band Replication]]
 
* [[Spectrogram]]
 
* [[Spectrogram]]
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* [[S/PDIF]] (Sony-Phillips Digital Interface)
 
* [[Streaming]]
 
* [[Streaming]]
 
* [[Subband]]
 
* [[Subband]]
 
* [[SZIP]]
 
* [[SZIP]]
  
==T==
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== T ==
 
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* [[TTA]] ('''T'''rue '''T'''ap '''A'''udio)
* [[TTA]] '''T'''rue '''T'''ap '''A'''udio
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* [[Temporal accuracy]]
 
* [[Temporal accuracy]]
 
* [[Temporal smearing]]
 
* [[Temporal smearing]]
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* [[Temporal Noise Shaping]]
 
* [[Time domain]]
 
* [[Time domain]]
* [[Tonality]]/[[Tonality|Tonal signals]]/[[Tonality|Tonality estimation]]
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* TNS → [[Temporal Noise Shaping]]
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* Tonal signals → Tonality
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* [[Tonality]]
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* Tonality estimation → Tonality
 
* [[Transcoding]]
 
* [[Transcoding]]
 
* [[Transform]]
 
* [[Transform]]
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* [[Tremor]]
 
* [[Tremor]]
  
==V==
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==U==
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* [[UHQCD]]
  
* [[VBR]] (Variable Bitrate/Variable Bitrate Coding)
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== V ==
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* [[Variable Bitrate]]
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* Variable Bitrate Coding → Variable Bitrate
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* VBR → Variable Bitrate
 
* [[Vector quantization]]
 
* [[Vector quantization]]
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* [[Vorbis]]
  
==W==
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== W ==
 
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* [[WAV]]
 
* [[WAV]]
* [[Wavelets]]
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* [[Wavelet]]s
 
* [[WavPack]]
 
* [[WavPack]]
 
* [[Window function]]  
 
* [[Window function]]  
* [[WMA]]
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* WMA → Windows Media Audio
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[[Windows Media Audio]]
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