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Has Samsung and Google behind it, will be open source.

Samsung and Google are ready to push a new standard, Eclipsa Audio. This format will enable 3D audio experiences on certain YouTube videos later this year, with support available across Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and soundbars. Over the years, Samsung notably hasn’t supported Dolby Vision HDR for dynamic HDR metadata, choosing instead to promote its preferred alternative, HDR10 Plus. Now, it seems ready to make a similar competitive push for open-source 3D audio support.

Eclipsa Audio could eventually serve as a free alternative to Dolby Atmos, the dominant 3D audio format that hardware makers like Samsung pay to license for TVs and other equipment. Samsung says that similar to Atmos, this audio format supports adjusting “audio data such as the location and intensity of sounds, along with spatial reflections” to create a 3D experience.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/24335170/samsung-google-eclipsa-spatial-audio-format-2025-tvs

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RFC9639 has been published, specifying the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format.

Although FLAC has had a specification document since 2000 and a open-source reference implementation filling in the details, this document should formally specify the format, such that implementers don't have to look at the reference source code or browse the mailing list archives for details.

This publication doesn't change the FLAC format except explicitly adding support for 32-bit audio and adding restrictions to accommodate, see here for details.

The main benefit this publications brings is that it should make writing a new FLAC decoder implementation from scratch much easier. It also provides assurance for archives wanting to use the FLAC format that their files remain decodable in the far future, in case FLAC ever becomes obsolete and its implementations unusable.

I'd like to thank all the users of this board that participated in making this document better.

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Exact Audio Copy v1.7 released

Homepage:
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Download:
https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/

Changelog July 13, 2024:

- Standard setup now using AccurateRip meta instead of gnudb.org for metadata retrieval
- AccurateRip meta does not yet support submissions, but will be in the future
- Updated the Musicbrainz Metadata plugin, for better CD information, more covers & lyrics
- Removed freedb integration completely (including genre selection, etc.)
- Updated flac and CTDB applications in the EAC setup
- Fixed and new command line parameters
- Fixed problem of using the wrong browser when opening a link
- Found a problem with communication with AcoustID via the plugin

Exact Audio Copy v1.8 released

Changelog July 14, 2024:

- There was a small problem with version 1.7 when using it as fresh install on a new computer. In that case, no email address was set and thus the metadata retrieval failed. Here comes version 1.8, which should fix this problem.

MOD edited