Technical Metadata

Section: Sound Sampling

Name

soundSampling

Schema

AES

Definition

Sampling information about a sound object.

soundSampling has the following components:

• Subelements:
  • bitsPerSample
  • samplingRate
  • wordSize

Controlled Vocabulary

n/a

Repeatable

N

Name

bitsPerSample

Label

Sound Sampling - Sampling Bits per Sample

Schema

METS

Definition

Bit depth, the number of bits per sample.

Controlled Vocabulary

8-bit; 10-bit; 16-bit; 20-bit; 24-bit; 32-bit; 48-bit; other

Repeatable

N

Name

samplingRate

Label

Sound Sampling - Sampling Rate

Schema

AES

Definition

Sampling rate of the master audio file in kHz

Controlled Vocabulary

8 kHz; 11kHz; 21.5kHz; 22.050kHz; 32kHz; 44.096kHz; 44.1kHz; 48kHz; 88.2kHz; 96kHz; 192kHz; other

Repeatable

N

Name

wordSize

Label

Sound Sampling - Word Size

Schema

rulib

Definition

Number of bytes used to represent a single audio sample, which generally maps to bits per sample or audio bits per sample.

Controlled Vocabulary

free text

Example(s)

Files with a bit depth of 24 will usually be expressed as a 3-byte word size, however some applications may store 24-bit video in a 4-byte word.

Repeatable

N