• AAC
    Advanced Audion Coding (AAC) is a lossy data compression scheme for digital music files. It was designed to compete with MP3 in terms of audio quality. AAC is used the Apple iPod. Other portable music players also support AAC. The tool, FAAC is used to convert WAV file to AAC. See the AAC entry on Wikipedia for more information on MP3. Return to Standards

  • Album
    An Album is a finite collection of songs organized in a specific order. Return to Standards

  • Album.xml
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  • Alpha
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  • AlphaStage
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  • Artist
    The artist name, either his/her proper name such as Bob Dylan, the Group name such as The-Band. The name is in Camel Case. Return to Standards

  • Bass
    See the Bass Guitar entry on Wikipedia for more information on bass guitars. Return to Standards

  • Bin
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  • Camel Case
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  • Classical
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  • Clips
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  • Comedy
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  • Compilations
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  • Cover
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  • Covers
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  • Data
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  • Date
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  • Disk #
    A serial number of the discs of the album in question. Most albums only have one disc but when the album has more than one disc they are numbered in sequence. The artist may chose to label the discs something other than "Disc 1", "Disc 2", etc. The album "Fragile" by "Nine Inch Nails" is an example. Those 2 discs were labeled "Left" and "Right". Return to Standards

  • FAAC
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  • FLAC
    See the FLAC entry on Wikipedia for more information on FLAC. Return to Standards

  • Guitar
    See the Guitar entry on Wikipedia for more information on guitars. Return to Standards

  • Image file
    This is the cover art of the album in some electronic format (gif, jpg, png, etc.) Return to Standards

  • Lists
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  • Live Recordings
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  • MD5
    An MD5, and a related SHA1, is a unique digital fingerprint of that individual file. See the MD5 entry on Wikipedia for more information on MD5 and SHA1. In this instance, each music file has an MD5. This is to Return to Standards

  • MP3
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  • MUSIC_ROOT
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  • Misc
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  • Mixes
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  • Music file
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  • Notes
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  • Ogg
    See the Ogg entry on Wikipedia for more information on ogg. Return to Standards

  • Other
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  • PCM
    See the PCM entry on Wikipedia for more information on PCM. Return to Standards

  • Play Lists
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  • Rip
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  • Shorten
    See the Shorten entry on Wikipedia for more information on Shorten. Return to Standards

  • Soundtrack
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  • Stage
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  • Tab file
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  • Tabs
    This directory contains tablature, either guitar or bass, of the songs contained in this album. See the Tablature entry on Wikipedia for more information. Return to Standards

  • Various
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  • WAV
    See the WAV entry on Wikipedia for more information. Return to Standards