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??? question "TrueHD ATMOS - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Atmos){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology developed by Dolby Laboratories. It expands on existing surround sound systems by adding height channels, allowing sounds to be interpreted as three-dimensional objects.
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??? question "DTS:X - [Click to show/hide]"
[DTS:X is an object-based audio codec](https://www.whathifi.com/advice/dtsx-what-it-how-can-you-get-it), which aims to create a multi-dimensional sound that “moves around you like it would in real life”.
You may think that sounds a lot like Dolby Atmos, and you’d be right. But where DTS:X differs lies in the required speaker configuration. While Dolby Atmos requires you to add extra overhead channels to your 5.1 or 7.1 setup, DTS:X works with standard surround speaker setups – just like the one you might already have at home. It can support up to 32 speaker locations and up to an 11.2-channel system.
DTS:X like other higher quality DTS formats (e.g. DTS-HD MA) is lossless.
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??? question "TrueHD - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby TrueHD is a lossless, multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories for home video, used principally in Blu-ray Disc and compatible hardware.
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??? question "DTS-HD MA - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS-HD_Master_Audio){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
DTS-HD Master Audio is a multi-channel, lossless audio codec developed by DTS as an extension of the lossy DTS Coherent Acoustics codec (DTS CA; usually itself referred to as just DTS). Rather than being an entirely new coding mechanism, DTS-HD MA encodes an audio master in lossy DTS first, then stores a concurrent stream of supplementary data representing whatever the DTS encoder discarded. This gives DTS-HD MA a lossy "core" able to be played back by devices that cannot decode the more complex lossless audio. DTS-HD MA's primary application is audio storage and playback for Blu-ray Disc media.
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??? question "FLAC - [Click to show/hide]"
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio
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??? question "DD+ - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital_Plus){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby Digital Plus, also known as Enhanced AC-3 (and commonly abbreviated as DD+ or E-AC-3, or EC-3) is a digital audio compression scheme developed by Dolby Labs for transport and storage of multi-channel digital audio. It is a successor to Dolby Digital (AC-3).
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??? question "DTS-ES - [Click to show/hide]"
DTS-ES (DTS Extended Surround) includes two variants, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, and DTS-ES Matrix 5.1, depending on how the sound was originally mastered and stored.
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??? question "AAC - [Click to show/hide]"
Advanced Audio Coding
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 at the same bit rate.
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??? question "Opus - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed to efficiently code speech and general audio in a single format, while remaining low-latency enough for real-time interactive communication and low-complexity enough for low-end embedded processors.Opus replaces both Vorbis and Speex for new applications, and several blind listening tests have ranked it higher-quality than any other standard audio format at any given bitrate until transparency is reached, including MP3, AAC, and HE-AAC
@ -132,9 +132,7 @@ We've made 3 guides related to this.
??? question "TrueHD ATMOS - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Atmos){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology developed by Dolby Laboratories. It expands on existing surround sound systems by adding height channels, allowing sounds to be interpreted as three-dimensional objects.
@ -150,9 +148,7 @@ We've made 3 guides related to this.
??? question "DTS:X - [Click to show/hide]"
[DTS:X is an object-based audio codec](https://www.whathifi.com/advice/dtsx-what-it-how-can-you-get-it), which aims to create a multi-dimensional sound that “moves around you like it would in real life”.
You may think that sounds a lot like Dolby Atmos, and you’d be right. But where DTS:X differs lies in the required speaker configuration. While Dolby Atmos requires you to add extra overhead channels to your 5.1 or 7.1 setup, DTS:X works with standard surround speaker setups – just like the one you might already have at home. It can support up to 32 speaker locations and up to an 11.2-channel system.
DTS:X like other higher quality DTS formats (e.g. DTS-HD MA) is lossless.
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??? question "TrueHD - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby TrueHD is a lossless, multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories for home video, used principally in Blu-ray Disc and compatible hardware.
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??? question "DTS-HD MA - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS-HD_Master_Audio){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
DTS-HD Master Audio is a multi-channel, lossless audio codec developed by DTS as an extension of the lossy DTS Coherent Acoustics codec (DTS CA; usually itself referred to as just DTS). Rather than being an entirely new coding mechanism, DTS-HD MA encodes an audio master in lossy DTS first, then stores a concurrent stream of supplementary data representing whatever the DTS encoder discarded. This gives DTS-HD MA a lossy "core" able to be played back by devices that cannot decode the more complex lossless audio. DTS-HD MA's primary application is audio storage and playback for Blu-ray Disc media.
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??? question "FLAC - [Click to show/hide]"
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio
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??? question "DD+ - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital_Plus){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby Digital Plus, also known as Enhanced AC-3 (and commonly abbreviated as DD+ or E-AC-3, or EC-3) is a digital audio compression scheme developed by Dolby Labs for transport and storage of multi-channel digital audio. It is a successor to Dolby Digital (AC-3).
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??? question "DTS-ES - [Click to show/hide]"
DTS-ES (DTS Extended Surround) includes two variants, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, and DTS-ES Matrix 5.1, depending on how the sound was originally mastered and stored.
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??? question "AAC - [Click to show/hide]"
Advanced Audio Coding
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 at the same bit rate.
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??? question "Opus - [Click to show/hide]"
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed to efficiently code speech and general audio in a single format, while remaining low-latency enough for real-time interactive communication and low-complexity enough for low-end embedded processors.Opus replaces both Vorbis and Speex for new applications, and several blind listening tests have ranked it higher-quality than any other standard audio format at any given bitrate until transparency is reached, including MP3, AAC, and HE-AAC
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 at the same bit rate.
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital_Plus){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby Digital Plus, also known as Enhanced AC-3 (commonly abbreviated as DD+ or E-AC-3, or EC-3), is the successor to Dolby Digital (AC-3). It is a digital audio compression scheme developed by Dolby Labs for the transport and storage of multi-channel digital audio.
DTS-ES (DTS Extended Surround) includes two variants, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 and DTS-ES Matrix 5.1, depending on how the sound was originally mastered and stored.
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS-HD_Master_Audio){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
DTS-HD Master Audio is a multi-channel lossless audio codec developed by DTS that extends the lossy DTS Coherent Acoustics codec (DTS CA; usually referred to as simply "DTS"). Rather than being an entirely new coding mechanism, DTS-HD MA encodes an audio master in lossy DTS first, then stores a concurrent stream of supplementary data representing whatever the DTS encoder discarded. This gives DTS-HD MA a lossy "core" able to be played back by devices that cannot decode the more complex lossless audio. DTS-HD MA's primary application is audio storage and playback for Blu-ray Disc media.
[DTS:X is an object-based audio codec](https://www.whathifi.com/advice/dtsx-what-it-how-can-you-get-it) which aims to create a multi-dimensional sound that “moves around you like it would in real life”.
You may think that sounds similar to Dolby Atmos, and you’d be right, but where DTS:X's differences lie in the required speaker configuration. While Dolby Atmos requires adding additional overhead channels to your 5.1 or 7.1 setup, DTS:X works with standard surround speaker setups – just like the one you might already have at home. It can support up to 32 speaker locations and an 11.2-channel system.
DTS:X, like other higher-quality DTS formats (e.g. DTS-HD MA), is lossless.
Digital Theater Sound (DTS) is a digital audio technology developed by DTS, Inc, which focuses on digital surround sound formats for consumer and commercial applications as well as theatrical purposes. Compared to the Dolby Digital standard, DTS uses four times less compression and digitizes audio sounds at 20 bits instead of 16 bits. This makes DTS-based audio richer in sound and more detailed than Dolby Digital-based ones.
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3 - but lossless, meaning that the audio compressed with FLAC does not receive any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio.
Obfuscated are used on usenet, mostly with non-tier-1 indexers, to do re-posts of common/popular releases. Use this only if you've access to tier 1 usenet indexers.
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed to efficiently code speech and general audio in a single format while remaining low-latency enough for real-time interactive communication and low-complexity enough for low-end embedded processors. Opus replaces both Vorbis and Speex for new applications, and several blind listening tests have ranked it higher quality than any other standard audio format at any given bitrate until transparency is reached, including MP3, AAC, and HE-AAC.
Retags are something you often see on public trackers where the tracker or uploader adds their name to the torrent. It is also possible that it could show up on some usenet indexers.
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Atmos){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology developed by Dolby Laboratories. It expands on existing surround sound systems by adding height channels, allowing sounds to be interpreted as three-dimensional objects.
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD){:target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
Dolby TrueHD is a lossless multi-channel audio codec developed by Dolby Laboratories for home video, used principally in Blu-ray Discs and compatible hardware.