Mastering Digital Audio Production: The Professional Music Workflow with Mac OS Publisher: Sybex | ISBN: 0470102594 | edition 2007 | PDF | 626 pages | 21,2 mb * Studio power users must mix tools from a variety of different applications to maximize their sound capabilities-veteran studio engineer and professional musician Cliff Truesdell shows users how to integrate the rich variety of Mac production tools in order to get exactly the results they want * Offers invaluable advice, whether readers already have a complete studio suite or are just starting to assemble their toolkit * Presents practical and immediate ways to use the programs and concepts discussed while also providing users with a wide range of possibilities based on their skill level, experience, and musical style

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DRM
Stands for Digital Rights Management. It stands for all rules and regulations aimed at limiting the use of digital products and impose licensing conditions. It is opposed by digital advocacy groups like Free Software Foundation. DRM is pushed energetically by the entertainment and music industry, supported by companies like Apple.

MP3
A very popular “lossy data compression” technology used to compress music into small enough audio files that can be transferred or downloaded easily over the Internet. An MP3 file created with 128 kilobits per second setting will create a file 1/11th its original size. The small size of MP3 files and the ease with which they can be sent over the Internet led to such peer-to-peer sharing networks like Napster which was sued by the entertainment industry for violating their digital rights (See DRM).

Podcast
A popular method of delivering digital audio and video files in episodes, downloadable through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. You can “subscribe” to such an RSS feeds and have podcast “broadcast” delivered automatically to your mailbox or machine, as they become available. The advantage of a podcast is that the receiver does not need to listen or watch the broadcast in real time. The consumers can save podcasts on their machines and watch them whenever they feel like it, as many times as they like. MP3 and Ogg Vorbis are two of the more popular podcast file formats.

RealAudio
A proprietary audio compression technology owned by RealNetworks corporation. It’s a popular format for streaming music and audio files over the Internet, used especially by Internet radio broadcasts, including BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). It requires downloading of RealPlayer client application.

Streaming
A popular method of delivering audio and video files over the Internet. There are many music streaming services like Grooveshark that stream music for real-time listening without however transferring the ownership of the music files themselves. Streaming became more popular when broadband Internet service became available at a lower cost across the world. The cost and speed of streaming depends on he size of the source file and the bandwidth of the connection between the server and the client machines or devices.

WMA
Stands for Windows Media Audio, a proprietary audio compression and presentation technology owned by Microsoft corporation and used in digital audio players like Zune. It’s the competitor of MP3 and RealAudio formats. WMA has several varieties. WMA-Pro supports up to 8 channels of audio. WMA-Lossless is a (as its name suggests) lossless audio compression technology mostly used for archival purposes.