hello!

i have to make a project in college, and we have to do some audio encoding-decoding. i will have raw audio and will have to encode and decode to and from some other format.
i have already looked at some codecs (lame, vorbis and celt) but they all look complicated.
so the question is: what is simplest codec for encoding/decoding audio (not speech but audio)?
i will have to implement it in c and verilog... priority is c, because i can translate it to verilog