I feel a little too long. What about:

bformenc
bformdec

as oscili and so on.

Kanata
http://www.soundclick.com/standalonerecords

> bformatencode
> bformatdecode

or
bfencode
bfdecode

In any case we are safer not calling them "~ambi", as my understanding is that 
strtictly speaking the name "Ambisonics" is still a registered trademark.

Richard Dobson

Steven Yi wrote:
> The shorter names seem fine to me. I would prefer bformatenc and
> bformatedec as they are a little clearer to me, but would not object
> at all to the shorter names.
> 
> steven