Patent ID: 7813826

Claim:
An apparatus for storing audio files for an audio piece in a storage device with a writer and a reader, wherein the audio piece is to be rendered by a renderer of a wave field synthesis system, wherein the audio piece comprises several scenes, wherein a scene description is provided for each scene, and wherein a scene defines a temporal sequence of audio objects of the scene, wherein an audio object comprises information on a virtual source and an identification for an audio file associated with the audio object, comprising: an examiner for examining the scene description and for determining a first scene demanding a higher processing capacity of the wave field synthesis system ( 3 ) than a second scene; and a controller for controlling the writer so that audio files being identified by the scene description of the first scene are written on the storage device so that the reader can read out the audio files for the first scene more quickly than if the audio files for the first scene are randomly stored on the storage device.