Method and apparatus for generation and playback of object based audio contents

The object-based audio content creation and / or reproducing method and apparatus is disclosed. Object-based audio content generation unit comprises at least one of the first audio preset and information for the at least one of the first audio preset first database, the object property of the plurality of audio objects constituting an audio content to store the preset ID of preset generator, the generated preset to set up the preset ID (ID) of the audio preset ID setting unit, and the object by encoding the plurality of audio objects, wherein the audio preset and the preset-ID of the audio content to generate the audio preset containing generated encoding to the portion, wherein the preset ID setting unit when the first audio preset corresponding to the audio preset the generated existing in the database, wherein the generating a first preset ID of the first audio preset is the corresponding audio preset preset ID Set. Object-based audio, the audio object, preset audio scene, preset ID,