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| AAC | Stands for Apple Audio Codec. Based on the MPEG-4 audio codec - claims better sound quality than MP3. Used exclusively by Apple on the iPod |
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| Codec | Stands for COder and DECoder and is the software component that either creates or reads the specific digital music format of interest. |
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| DAE | Stands for Digital Audio Extraction which is the process of ripping the audio wave files from the CD to the computer. |
| DMCA | Stands for Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It sucks. |
| DRM | Stands for Digital Rights Management. It also sucks. |
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| FLAC | Stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. An open source codec that contains no proprietary code and can be used freely by anyone. As the name implies encoded files retain the same quality as the source data |
| FYCD | Stands for Free Your CDs - what we hope you will do to revitalize your music collection and let it fly in the world of digital music! |
| Fair Use | When used in the context of a discussion about copyright fair use refers to the laws that are in place to protect the consumer from overzealous enforcement of copyright. Basically fair use states that the legal owner of copyrighted material may make copies for their own personal use. See X for a more complete explanation. |
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| Jitter Correction | Although a CD spins at a constant speed (and so doesn't jitter around) this refers to correcting imperfections in the data stream coming from the CD. |
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| LAME | Stands for LAME Ain't an MP3 encoder (see lame.org for more details).LAME is the MP3 encoder of choice at FYCD (we know what the name implies - see lame.org for for an explanation!) |
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| MP3 | Stands for MPEG Layer 3 Audio. MP3 is the most widely used audio format see X for a good introduction and history of MP3 |
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| Ogg-Vorbis | This is an open source codec it contains no proprietary code and can be used freely by anyone. |
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| Ripping | A cool name for DAE |
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| Transcode | The process of translating from one encoding format to another. |
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| WMA | Stands for Windows Media Audio. A codec developed by Microsoft for exclusive use on Windows with claims of better sound quality than MP3 |
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