Looking for technical intro to audio coding Options

[SometimesWarrior]

(I wanted the title of this post to be "Looking for a good technical introduction to perceptual audio coding" but that didn't fit well on the front page)

I want to spend some time reading technical papers about perceptual audio coders, so when Frank starts saying stuff like "No that's wrong because of the (insert technical babble here)", I might be able to follow along.

http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~bosse/proj/proj.html: I discovered this page in a Google search. It seems like a fairly comprehensive introduction to perceptual audio coders, and although it's dated 1998 or so, it looks like it has a lot of relevent information.

I just wanted to make sure, before I spent several hours trying to read and understand it, that it's not a false/poorly written article. And after reading this, I'll probably want to read more...

I appreciated 2BDecided's links to articles on dither in this thread, and I'm wondering if there are some more bookmarks that the audio experts would be willing to share regarding the innards of audio coders.

I have access to a university library (which has subscriptions to a lot of technical journals) so if anyone can point me to some authors, journals, or articles that are good sources but aren't free to access, that would be great too.

I'm still a novice with this stuff, and my math knowledge isn't that advanced (yet), but anything that I might be able to understand would be much appreciated!

[bryant]

I have got a lot of information from Ken Pohlmann's classic "Principles Of Digital Audio". It's got a 60 page chapter on "Perceptual Coding" that's not too mathy, and it's got stuff on specific codecs, dither, FFT's, etc. It's over 700 pages altogether and should be in everyone's library.

If you can't find a copy I'd be happy to let you look at mine; I'm right over in Solvang