mp3 encoder

contents


mp3

mp3-splash

fig: \(mp^3\) digital audio encoding

origins

lossy compression scheme

mp3-00

fig: digital signal flow - encoding and decoding

encoding

storage size comparison
human ears and mp3

mp3 encoding - block diagram

mp3-01

fig: mp3 encoding block diagram

masking effect

relative amplitudes

mp3-02

fig: masking effect of human auditory system

frequency resolution

mp3-03 - critical bands

fig: frequency distribution of critical bands of human hearing

psycho-acoustic model

mp3-04

fig: psycho-acoustic vs. uniform bit allocation

step 1
step 2
step 3
step 4
step 5
step 6

sub-band filtering

mp3-05

fig: sub-band filtering

quantization

quantizer

mp3-08

fig: uniform 3-bit quantization function

uniform quantizer formula

\[ \tilde{s}[n] = round\Big[ 2^{b-1} (Q_a(b)s[n] + Q_b(b)) \Big] \]

mp3 performance


references


created: 04 Aug 2019
today's track: Something Inside by Mari Kvien Brunvoll