Report of the meeting of the SC-02-08 Working Group on audio file transfer and exchange of the SC-02 Subcommittee on Digital Audio, held in Warsaw, Poland, 2015-05-07
The meeting was convened by chair M. Yonge.
The agenda were approved as written. The group did not meet in in Los Angeles, 2014-10, and so there was no report.
AES31-2-R: Review of AES31-2-2006: Audio-file transfer and exchange - Part 2: File Format for Transferring Digital Audio Data Between Systems of Different Type and Manufacture
No action was requested or required.
AES31-3-R: Review of AES31-3-2008, AES standard for network and file transfer of audio - Audio-file transfer and exchange - Part 3: Simple project interchange. including maintenance of annex F.
This standard was recently reaffirmed. No further action was requested or required.
AES-21id-R: Review of AES-21id-2011, AES Information Document for audio-file transfer and exchange - Screen-less navigation for high-resolution audio on Blu-ray Disc
No action was requested or required.
AES69-R Review of AES69-2015, AES standard for file exchange - Spatial acoustic data file format
The draft developed in this group as AES-X212 was finally published as AES69-2015 in March of this year following due process. No further action was requested or required.
Development Projects
AES-X236 - IEC 62942 liaison, BWF
A new project has been created to manage liaison activities between AES31-2 in this group and IEC 62942 in TC100.
In discussion, it has been agreed that a universal BWFF shall carry the essential data elements described in AES31-2. It will also support an option to include a "ubxt" chunk containing human-readable metadata in multi-byte character format that in turn will support all international character sets. The 'ubxt' chunk will always be an addition to a conventional BWFF and 'bext' chunk, and not a replacement to assure universal compatibility.
Liaisons
No new liaison information
New projects
No new projects were proposed.
New business
There was no new business.
The next meeting will be scheduled in conjunction with the AES 139th Convention in New York, NY., US., 29 October to 1 November, 2015.
