Abstract: A process for managing digital audio streams of a musical work, includes creating digital audio streams called tracks (p1 to p21) of the same musical work, whereby the tracks have a duration that is essentially equal to the musical work, each of the digital audio streams corresponding to a sound signal. The process includes, at the time of creation, combining the tracks into at least two units (G1 to G5), whereby the tracks and the units are called elements; establishing constraints relative to the elements; verifying that each new constraint is compatible with the prior constraints using a constraint resolution engine; encapsulating the tracks (p1 to p21) and the constraints in a single computer file; and, when the user listens to the work, selecting the tracks that he wishes to hear in accordance with the constraints, and obtaining a sound signal from the selected tracks.

Abstract: The object of the invention is a process for managing digital audio streams, consisting in creating digital audio streams called tracks (p1 to p21), whereby each of said digital audio streams corresponds to a sound signal, characterized in that it consists, at the time of creation, in combining said tracks into at least two units (G1 to G5), whereby the tracks and units are called elements, in establishing constraints on the elements, in verifying that each new constraint is compatible with the prior constraints using a constraint resolution engine, in encapsulating the tracks (p1 to p21) and the constraints in a single computer file, and when the user listens to the work, in selecting the tracks that he wishes to hear in accordance with the constraints, and obtaining a sound signal from the selected tracks.