Abstract
The Audio Definition Model is an ITU specification of metadata that can be used to describe object-based audio, scene-based audio and channel-based audio. It can be included in BWF WAVE files or used as a streaming format in production environments.
ITU-R BS.2076 Audio Definition Model - Metadata specification
ITU-R BS.2088 Specification of the BW64 - A long-form file format for audio data files with metadata in broadcasting
Example files using this format can be found here
BBC Audio Toolbox
<br> The BBC Audio Toolbox is a suite of C++ libraries for manipulating object-based audio and ADM based BWF files. <br><br> <b>Please note IMPORTANT library changes below in the Deprecated Libraries section.</b> <br><br> All the libraries have the following licence: <br> <hr> <br> Copyright (c) 2015 British Broadcasting Corporation
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Source Code
<br> Please note <b>IMPORTANT</b> library changes below in the Deprecated Libraries section. <br><br> bbcat-base Base library for the BBC Audio Toolbox <br><br> bbcat-dsp DSP library for the BBC Audio Toolbox <br><br> bbcat-adm Audio Definition Model handling library for the BBC Audio Toolbox <br><br> bbcat-fileio File I/O library for the BBC Audio Toolbox <br><br> All libraries can be built on Mac OSX, Linux and <b>Windows</b> 64-bit architectures. Each library relies on those above so all libraries must be built and installed. See the README file in each library for instructions. bbcat-fileio contains several example programs to read and write ADM based BWF files in the examples/ folder.<br> <br> For all architectures, building using <b>CMake</b> is now supported. On Windows this allows building using <b>Visual Studio</b> and produces libraries for statically linking <b>only</b>. <b>IMPORTANT</b>: Care must be taken when linking statically to ensure all parts of the libraries are included, please see the examples for more information.<br> <br> autotools can still be used on OSX and Linux but this will be <b>deprecated</b> in favour of CMake in a future release.<br> <br>
Examples
<br> Some of the examples (in bbcat-fileio/examples):<br> <br> create-adm.cpp - example code for creating an ADM (in XML form) WITHOUT using a RIFF file<br> <br> read-adm-bwf.cpp - example code for reading the displaying parts of the ADM and then accessing the sample data of one of the ADM audio objects<br> <br> write-adm-bwf.cpp - example code for creation of a simple ADM<br> <br> write-separate-adm.cpp - example code for creation of a simple ADM and then writing the CHNA and AXML chunks to a RIFF file<br> <br> udp-demo.cpp - example of using UDP port, threading and a lock-free buffer<br> <br>
Deprecated Libraries
<br> The following libraries have been <b>deprecated</b> and replaced by bbcat-adm and bbcat-fileio above - they will still work but will <b>not</b> be updated: <br><br> bbcat-control Control library for the BBC Audio Toolbox <br><br> bbcat-audioobjects Audio objects library for the BBC Audio Toolbox <br><br> bbcat-adm provides pure Audio Definition Model data handling facilities without any file reading or writing, that is now provided by bbcat-fileio. <br><br> Crucially, the API's have not changed - the classes and filenames are as they were, just their location has changed. <br><br> For example: <br> bbcat-control/AudioObjectParameters.h is now bbcat-adm/AudioObjectParameters.h <br> bbcat-audioobjects/ADMData.h is now bbcat-adm/ADMData.h <br> bbcat-audioobjects/RIFFFile.h is now bbcat-fileio/RIFFFile.h <br> bbcat-audioobjects/TinyXMLADMData.h is now bbcat-fileio/TinyXMLADMData.h <br>
Python
<br> The Python code has now been <b>deprecated</b> in favour of the C++ code above.<br> <br>
Contact
<br> Please email audio@rd.bbc.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
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