General Audio

General audio discussion. All topics which don't fit to other forums should go here.

Validated News

Discuss current news items. Post new items in News Submissions.

News Submissions

Submit news for validation. Validated news will appear in the "Validated News"-section and on the front page.

Polls

Make your voice heard in the Hydrogenaudio Polls.

Site Related Discussion

Hydrogenaudio.org site discussion. Feedback, suggestions, problems etc. related to the the site and forums.

Listening Tests

Discussion of listening test results, techniques and arrangements.

Scientific Discussion

Discussion of psychoacoustic phenomena and models, coding architectures and algorithms, and other general DSP related subjects.

Uploads

This is the forum for regular members to upload files for use by others.  Hydrogenaudio.org takes no responsibility for the content that may be present here, but states that any misuse of this forum, as deemed by the staff, may result in revocation of the offending users account.  Acceptable content includes freely and legally distributable data of the following types: audio programs, audio samples (under 30 second clips), misc. audio related data, or other utilities which are immediately relevant to the Hydrogenaudio.org community.

Wiki Discussion

Discuss issues pertaining to The Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase.

Other Lossy Codecs

Discussion of other lossy audio codecs like AC3, ADPCM, Atrac, Dolby Pro logic/II, DTS, MP1, MP2, Real Audio, VQF, Wavpack lossy, WMA etc.

Speech Codecs

Discussion of speech codecs like Speex, GSM-FR, GSM-EFR, iLBC, G.723.1, G.728, G.729, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, VSELP, ACELP.xxx etc.

MPC

Discussion of MPC (Musepack) audio compression. The official forum is at http://forum.musepack.net/

Opus

Discussion of the Opus codec. Both technical/developer and user questions go here.

FLAC

Discussion of FLAC Lossless Audio Compression

WavPack

Discussion of WavPack Lossless Audio Compression

Lossless / Other Codecs

General discussion of lossless audio compression and other lossless codecs like ALAC, Monkey's Audio, WMA Lossless, OptimFrog, LA, LPAC, Shorten, TAK etc.

Digital A/V News

News forum of the Audio/Video section.

General A/V

Discussion of general A/V topics such as DivX/XviD, AVC (H.264), DVD ripping, VirtualDub, container formats, streaming, and so on.

Moderator: smok3

Movie/Multichannel audio

Discussion dedicated especially to movie and multichannel -audio.

CD Hardware/Software

Discussion of CD-ROM/-R/-RW/DVD-hardware, copying, ripping and burning of CD media, EAC, CDex, Plextools etc.

Moderator: Pio2001

Audio Hardware

Discussion of Audio Hardware, Soundcards, Hi-Fi equipment, stand-alone CD players, portable MP3 players, headphones etc.

Moderator: Pio2001

Vinyl

Discussion of playback and recording of vinyl records, turntables, and related hardware.

General Music Discussion

General area for discussion of music.

Off-Topic

All things "Other".. whatever doesn't fit somewhere else, goes here.

Recycle Bin

The trashcan of HydrogenAudio. These posts represent the kind of messages we wouldn't like to see any more. These include: trolls, offensive, zealotry, spam and other useless and redundant messages.