The application provides an audio encoding and decoding method, device, equipment, medium and program product; wherein the audio encoding method comprises: decomposing an
audio signal to obtain a low-frequency sub-band
signal and a high-frequency sub-band
signal; performing multi-level
feature extraction processing based on the low-frequency sub-band
signal and the high-frequency sub-band signal to obtain sub-band signal features corresponding to multiple levels respectively; performing quantization
processing on the sub-band signal features corresponding to each level to obtain index values of the sub-band signal features; performing encoding
processing on the index values of the sub-band signal features to obtain code streams corresponding to the levels; and configuring corresponding transmission priorities for the code streams corresponding to the multiple levels respectively; wherein the transmission priority is positively correlated with a decoding quality index of the code
stream corresponding to the level. The application can be flexibly applied to different network bandwidth application scenarios, and the efficiency and quality of audio encoding and decoding are improved.