[LAD] Fwd: AES69-2015 standard for file exchange - Spatial acoustic data file format

This was just announced on sursound. Might be worthwhile to adopt for anyone working with spatial audio datasets and files... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Sursound] AES69-2015 standard for file exchange - Spatial acoustic data file format Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:13:47 +0100 From: Markus Noisternig &lt;Markus.Noisternig(a)ircam.fr&gt; Reply-To: Surround Sound discussion group &lt;sursound(a)music.vt.edu&gt; To: Surround Sound discussion group &lt;sursound(a)music.vt.edu&gt; Dear Sursounders, We are pleased to announce the recent publication of the AES69-2015 standard for file exchange - Spatial acoustic data file format. See also the AES press release at http://www.aes.org/press/?ID=293 <http://www.aes.org/press/?ID=293> The new AES69-2015 standard defines a file format to exchange space-related acoustic data in various forms. These include HRTF, as well as directional room impulse responses (DRIR). The format is designed to be scalable to match the available rendering process and to be sufficiently flexible to include source materials from different databases. This project was developed in AES Standards Working Group SC-02-08 and standardizes the Spatially-oriented format for acoustics (SOFA), which aims at storing and transmitting any transfer-function data measured with microphone arrays and loudspeaker arrays. See http://www.sofaconventions.org/ <http://www.sofaconventions.org/> for further information and ongoing format discussions. Open source application-programming interfaces (API) for Matlab, Octave, and C++ are available online at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sofacoustics/ <http://sourceforge.net/projects/sofacoustics/> All the best, Markus and Piotr -- Markus Noisternig Acoustics and Cognition Research Group IRCAM, CNRS, Sorbonne Universities, UPMC Paris, France Piotr Majdak Psychoacoustics and Experimental Audiology Acoustics Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, Austria