Abstract: An advanced digital audio encoding and/or decoding method and apparatus are provided. The digital audio encoding method involves (a) based on an input audio signal, generating a time-frequency band table; (b) based on the generated time-frequency band table, searching for a nearest neighbor block of a block being currently encoded, and generating information on the nearest neighbor block searched for; and (c) generating a bitstream containing the generated information on the nearest neighbor block.

Abstract: An integer coding method supporting diverse frame sizes and a coder-decoder (CODEC) implementing the method are provided. Maximum sample values are detected from a plurality of frames having different numbers of samples. The detected maximum sample values are normalized on the basis of a maximum sample value of the largest frame. A maximum sample value is detected from the normalized sample values. Multiples are determined according to the size of each frame on the basis of the detected maximum sample value and a sample value of each frame is multiplied by the multiples to generate an integer code.