A MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO ENCODER, DECODER, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN A PARAMETRIC MULTI-CHANNEL OPERATION AND AN INDIVIDUAL CHANNEL OPERATION

摘要

A multi-channel audio encoder (100) for providing an encoded audio representation (112) on the basis of an input audio representation (110) is provided. The multi-channel audio encoder (100) is configured to switch (140) between a parametric multi-channel encoding (120) of a plurality of channels and an individual encoding (130) of a plurality of channels in dependence on characteristics of the input audio representation (110).