AudioLib, as the name implies, is an audio library management app. It was developed by Celestial Technologies.

The audio coding format used by AudioLib is PAC - Perceptual Audio Coder - that was developed by Bell Labs in the early 1990s and marketed by their Elemedia subsidiary. Quality is claimed to be the same as MP3 at 30% smaller bitrates (the same claim goes for VQF and LC AAC).

The program keeps the encoded files inside a database (a security measure to avoid piracy), and can encode from wav files. A CD ripping feature is announced for the next version. The interface is so obtuse and unfriendly, it can be considered spiteful.

The program works for 20 days and then expires - but you can use the included patch to make it "registered".

At some point CelestialTech became VedaLabs (check AudioVeda) and later disappeared along with their web site - that can still be visited at the Internet Archive though.


Date: 1998-05-19
Version: 1.0.005
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win32
Download: AudioLib-1.0.zip - 2.630kB