July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
12h 59m
English
Audio streams are composed by a sequence of audio samples. Each audio sample is essentially a number (a quantity) representing the evolution of the sound in time. Sound can be described by those sine waves we've seen in high school textbooks, and each sample is the value in amplitude at a certain point in time.

Mixing (merging, combining) two or more sound samples is essentially about summing their numeric value, and divide the total by the number of streams we are mixing (eg: taking the average at each point in time). Obviously, is not at all so simple when the samples have been previously compressed, encoded, etc. And ...
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