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October 2008 meeting of SC-02-08

Audio Engineering Society

Standards Committee

Notice and agenda for the meeting of
SC-02-08
Working Group on Audio-File Transfer and Exchange
of the SC-02 Subcommittee on Digital Audio

To be held in conjunction with the upcoming AES 125th Convention in San Francisco, CA., US., 2008-10. The meeting is scheduled to take place at the Moscone Convention Center. Please check the latest schedule at http://www.aes.org/standards/

  1. Introduction to working group and attendees
  2. Amendments to and approval of agenda
  3. Approval of report of previous meeting

Held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008-05.

  1. Open Projects

One or more of these projects may be in the process of a formal Call for Comment (CFC), as indicated by the project status. In these cases only, due process requires that any comments be published.

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

Project scope: This standard defines a file format for interchanging audio data between compliant equipment. It is primarily intended for audio applications in professional recording, production, post production, and archiving.
Assigned to: SC-02-08 , Status: Proposed informative notes re null-terminated strings and null-filled fields. Amendment for large file sizes in preparation; see AES-X162
Intent: Amendment , Initiated: 2006 , Target: 2011
Current goal: PWD , Goal date: 2008-10

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.

Project scope: This standard provides a convention for expressing edit data in text form in a manner that enables simple and accurate computer parsing while retaining human readability. It also describes a method for expressing time-code information in character notation. It supports common professional audio sampling frequencies, video frame rates, and film framing. This document addresses the core need of the AES31 series of standards in providing a simple but extensible system for passing audio material between systems.
Assigned to: SC-02-08 , Status: AES31-3-2008 published 2008-05-08
Intent: Review , Initiated: 2008 , Target: 2013
Current goal: Status Report , Goal date: continuing

AES-X149: Format and Recommended Usage of the Direct Stream Digital Interchange File Format (DSDIFF)

Project scope: To standardise a file format to allow general interchange of sound files based on DSD-coded data based on an existing specification. The DSDIFF file format is intended for storage and transfer of DSD and DST (encoded DSD) material.
Assigned to: SC-02-08 , Status: Secretariat formatting awaited
Intent: Standard , Initiated: 2004-09-11 , Target: 2007
Current goal: Sec formatted PWD , Goal date: 2008-07

AES-X162: Amendment to AES31-2, File-size extension

Project scope: Adopt the file-size extension technique from EBU T3306 as an optional amendment to AES31-2 BWF
Assigned to: SC-02-08 , Status: Revised PWD pending
Intent: Amendment to standard , Initiated: 2007 , Target: 2008
Current goal: PWD , Goal date: 2008-07

  1. Liaisons
  2. New Projects
  3. New Business
  4. Date of next meeting

NOTES:
  • Please make sure you sign the attendance sheet that will be circulated. This sheet shall be passed to the secretariat after the meeting.
  • Please make sure that any documents contributed to the meeting are passed to the secretariat who will ensure they are posted to the appropriate Working Group document site.
page updated 2008-09-24

Maintenance Annex

The following projects are subject to periodic review, however no issues have been identified for discussion so far. If you wish to propose a matter for discussion regarding any of these projects, please send an e-mail message to the working group before the meeting, or inform the chair at the beginning of the meeting.

AES31-1-R: Review of AES31-1-2001 (r2006): AES standard for network and file transfer of audio - Audio-file transfer and exchange - Part 1: Disk format

Status: No action requested or required
Intent: Review , Initiated: 2006 , Target: 2011
Current goal: Status report , Goal date: Continuing
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