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The following standards and information documents are published by the Audio Engineering Society. The latest printing will include all amendments and corrections and will be available within a week of its date.

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AES57-2011 (r2022): AES standard for audio metadata - Audio object structures for preservation and restoration
Printing Date:
2017-04-29
Publication History:
Pub. 2011; Reaffirmed 2017; Reaffirmed 2022
Abstract:
This standard provides a vocabulary to be used in describing structural and administrative metadata for digital and analog audio formats for the purpose of enabling audio preservation activities on those objects. Some implementations also refer to this metadata as technical metadata. The characteristics of the audio objects captured by this standard may be of use to audio communities beyond the audio preservation community.
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AES-21id-2011 (r2022): AES Information Document for audio-file transfer and exchange - Screen-less navigation for high-resolution audio on Blu-ray Disc\99
Printing Date:
2017-05-01
Publication History:
Pub. 2011; Reaffirmed 2017; Reaffirmed 2022
Abstract:
High-resolution audio, presented as uncompressed LPCM, has been waiting for a suitable transport format for some time. The Blu-ray Disc (BD) format offers such a transport and supports the necessary linear and lossless codecs as part of its basic specification. While many BD players can be found in home theatre and games environments, there are some issues that need to be addressed before they can be introduced into a hi-fi environment that does not have a screen to present visual menus for audio stream setup and track selection. This recommended method specifies a structure for authoring a BD ROM to enable playback in screen-less consumer systems, and to provide simple track selection from the remote control.
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AES-16id-2010 (s2014): AES information document for transfer technologies - Stylus dimensions and selection
Printing Date:
2015-09-22
Publication History:
Pub. 2010; Reaff. 2013, Stabilized 2014
Abstract:
This information document is aimed at the archivist, librarian or technician who needs to make transfers from mechanical sound records made during the past 100 years or more. Each period had its own technological style and there was little effective standardisation until the late 1940s. Making satisfactory and efficient transfers from these records means choosing an appropriate stylus to suit both the style of manufacture and also the physical condition of the particular specimen. This brief document sets out some guidance on stylus choice for vertical recordings on cylinders and discs, coarse-groove lateral recordings on disc, and comparatively modern microgroove records in both mono and stereo.
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AES-14id-2010 (s2017): AES information document for interconnections - Universal jack for IEC 60603-11 and B gauge 6,35 mm plugs
Printing Date:
2015-09-17
Publication History:
Pub. 2010, Reaffirmed 2015, Stabilized 2017
Abstract:
Users of test equipment and portable audio equipment such as mixers and direct-injection (DI) boxes, may have to handle 'consumer' type equipment that uses the IEC 60603-11 3 contact (tip-ring-sleeve, or TRS) 6,3 mm plug connector and also professional equipment that uses the B-gauge connector. Traditionally, this has required the use of numerous ad-hoc adapters and connecting leads with different plugs at each end. Neither solution is very convenient and may be unreliable.
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AES3-4-2019: AES standard for digital audio - Digital input-output interfacing - Serial transmission format for two-channel linearly-represented digital audio data - Part 4: Physical and electrical
Printing Date:
2019-07-05
Publication History:
Pub. 1985; Rev. 1992; Am.1 1997; Am.2 1998; Am.3 1999; Am.4 1999; Rev. 2003; Am.5 2008; Am.6 2008; Rev. 2009; Reaffirmed 2014; Reaffirmed 2019
Abstract:
AES3 provides for the serial digital transmission of two channels of periodically sampled and uniformly quantized audio signals on various media.
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AES3-3-2009 (r2019): AES standard for digital audio - Digital input-output interfacing - Serial transmission format for two-channel linearly-represented digital audio data - Part 3: Transport
Printing Date:
2019-07-05
Publication History:
Pub. 1985; Rev. 1992; Am.1 1997; Am.2 1998; Am.3 1999; Am.4 1999; Rev. 2003; Am.5 2008; Am.6 2008; Rev. 2009; Reaffirmed 2014; Reaffirmed 2019
Abstract:
AES3 provides for the serial digital transmission of two channels of periodically sampled and uniformly quantized audio signals on various media.
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AES3-2-2009 (r2019): AES standard for digital audio - Digital input-output interfacing - Serial transmission format for two-channel linearly-represented digital audio data - Part 2: Metadata and Subcode
Printing Date:
2019-07-05
Publication History:
Pub. 1985; Rev. 1992; Am.1 1997; Am.2 1998; Am.3 1999; Am.4 1999; Rev. 2003; Am.5 2008; Am.6 2008; Rev. 2009; Reaffirmed 2014; Reaffirmed 2019
Abstract:
AES3 provides for the serial digital transmission of two channels of periodically sampled and uniformly quantized audio signals on various media.
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AES3-1-2009 (r2019): AES standard for digital audio - Digital input-output interfacing - Serial transmission format for two-channel linearly-represented digital audio data - Part 1: Audio Content
Printing Date:
2019-07-05
Publication History:
Pub. 1985; Rev. 1992; Am. 1 - 1997; Am. 2 - 1998; Am. 3 - 1999; Am. 4 - 1999; Rev. 2003; Am. 5 - 2008; Am. 6 - 2008; Rev. 2009; Reaffirmed 2014; Reaffirmed 2019
Abstract:
AES3 provides for the serial digital transmission of two channels of periodically sampled and uniformly quantized audio signals on various media.
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AES-R11-2009 (s2018): AES standards project report - Methods for the measurement of audio video synchronization error
Printing Date:
2009-12-03
Publication History:
First published 2009; Stabilized 2018
Abstract:
The synchronization of audio and video (A-V sync, or lip sync) in television continues to pose a problem for producers and broadcasters, because errors in synchronization continue to be a source of audience dissatisfaction.
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AES47-Am1-2008: Amendment 1 to AES47 - AES standard for digital audio - Digital input-output interfacing - Transmission of digital audio over asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks
Printing Date:
2009-02-16
Publication History:
Published 2008
Abstract:
This Amendment adds code points in the ATM Adaptation Layer Parameters Information Element to signal that the time to which each audio sample relates can be identified as specified in AES53. (2 pages)
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