Lossless Audio Checker!

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AES paper Downloads Internet music dealers currently sell CD-Quality tracks, or even better (Studio-Master, thanks to lossless audio coding formats (FLAC, ALAC. However, a lossless format does not guarantee that the audio content is what it seems to be. The audio signal may have been upscaled (increasing the resolution, upsampled (increasing the sampling rate or even transcoded from a lossy to a lossless format. Lossless Audio Checker analyzes lossless audio tracks and detects upscaling, upsampling and transcoding (only for AAC in this early version.

Lossless Audio Checker alternatives

  • Audiochecker

  • Audiochecker is a tiny and portable tool which analyzes the source of WAV, LPAC, SHN, APE and FLAC audio formats, in order to verify if the encoding is lossless. If not, it means that the files in question are converted from other formats with lower quality, such as MP3.

    tags: Discontinued audio-analysis

  • auCDtect Task Manager

  • auCDtect Task Manager is a free GUI tool that lets you check if your lossless audio files were upconverted from a "lossy" file format.

    tags: audio-analysis

  • Spectro

  • Spectro is a freeware audio file analyzer for windows. Currently capable of reading FLAC, APE, MP3 and WAV files. Spectro lets you view vital data about compressed audio files and creates a spectrogram of the wave data. This allows you to quickly and easily spot quality issues with a file and also look for transcodes.

    tags: audio-analysis spectrum spectrum-viewer spectrum-analyser acoustic-spectrogram-analyser

  • Tau Analyzer

  • Tau Analyzer is a free program, which can help you to distinguish with reasonable accuracy the original studio-based CDs from poor quality fakes, that have been "reconstructed" using a lossy audio source, such as MP3. Using this program you can check the authenticity of your purchased or borrowed music CDs. Tau Analyzer features an intuitive user interface, allowing users to work directly with audio CDs, and has some additional functions such as a Spectrum and Frequency analyzers, ATIP and ISRC data readers, etc. ยป

    tags: analysis-tool audio-analysis

  • Fakin' The Funk?

  • Detect the true quality of your audio files in one batch!

    tags: mp3 verify frequence-spectrum frequency-analyzer bitrate