Pop / Rock
- Alternative - French Variety - Electronica - Rap / Reegae / Groove - Metal
World Music - Jazz, Blues - Classical music - Ambience - Music for Children,
Stories...
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All the available styles descripted on the search engine are detailed under it.
| Pop
/ Rock : Garage, new wave, Post Rock, instrumental, psychedelic, progressive, ska, stoner, folk, modern folk, brit pop, surf music, easy listening, Steedy Beat, rockabilly, Blues Rock, Country |
Rap
/ Reggae / Groove : Rap, Ragga, Dub, Reggae, Hip Hop, Groove, Gansta, Break, Beat, Freestyle, Funk, R&B / soul, Turntablists... |
Classical
music : Baroc, Chamber music, Romantica, Wellknown composers, Wellknown orchestras, Lyric, Opera, , Electro-acoustic, Symphonie... |
| Alternative
: Fusion, Grunge, Noisy Pop / Power Pop Low Fi, Punk, Gothic, Industrial, Hardcore |
Metal
: Heavy Metal, Black - Death - Doom Metal, Metal, Hardcore, Industriel, Hard Rock, Trash, others... |
Ambience
: New Age, Musette, Surprise party, Cabaret, Dances , Noises, Instrumental, audio Illustration, Film Score, Karaoke, Retro... |
| French
Variety : French Rock |
World
Music : Africa, Latino, Asia, Caraïbes, Reunion, Europe, Oceanie, Amerindian, Orient, Arabian, celtic, Raï, Yiddish music, Tzigan music, Bresilian, Salsa, Zouk... |
Music for Children... |
| Electronica
(called Techno / Dance) : Techno, Ambient, Big Beat, Break Beat, Dance, Disco, Jungle, Drum'n'bass, Dub, Electro, Experimental, Hardcore, Gabber, House, Garage, Downtempo, Turntablists, Trance, Tribal, Trip Hop, and Industrial |
Jazz,
Blues : Acid Jazz, Blues Rock, Free Jazz, Fusion, Be Bop, Gospel, Hard Bop, Big Band / Swing, New Orleans, Jazz classique... |
Others
: stories, film scores, humoristic, military, spoken... |
MP3 Technical Resources
More general MPEG Audio resources can be found on the Audio page.
- MPEG Audio Layer 3 at Fraunhofer Institut
- MP3'Tech by Gabriel Bouvigne
- MPEG Layer 3 Sounds by Stede Bonnett
- The ID3 standards group by Martin Nilsson
- MPEG Audio headers guide by Predrag Supurovic
- The use of multirate filter banks for coding of high quality digital audio by Th. Sporer, K. Brandenburg, and B. Edler (postscript)
- MPEG Resources by The Realm of Soft Delusions
- MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 streaming at Phade Software
- A DSP-based MP3 player high-fidelity MPEG-Audio over TCP/IP networks by Björn Wesén
- Snom AG
- Brett's MP3 Decoder Review by Brett Bennett
The reference on MPEG Layer 3 and other audio compression technologies.
One of the best sites to find technical informations on the MPEG audio standards (MP3, AAC). Check out the Overview of the MP3 standard, a short overview of the techniques used in MPEG Layer 3 audio compression.
This site contains many technical resources and infos about MP3 encoders and lots of practical informations on how to produce MP3 files using various software tools.
ID3v2 is a tagging mechanism commonly used with MP3 files. See also this article on MP3.com.
A description of MPEG audio frame headers.
Describes the filterbank used in MP3 and gives an algorithm for a fast implementation of the MDCT (modified discrete cosine transform).
Access to MP3 Encoders and players for various platforms.
A compliant (fully accurate) VHDL implementation of MP3 to make custom MP3 DSP.
A comprehensive review of MPEG audio Decoder Chips and related chips such as Audio DACs and Micro-controllers.
