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What is the easiest way to determine if a FLAC is mp3 sourced?
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I'm sure there's a thread about this somewhere but here goes...
What is the easiest way to determine if a FLAC is mp3 sourced?
I use Audiochecker but I've heard some criticism of it. I have a lot of shows from around 2000 that have turned out to be mp3 sourced. I suppose this was before torrenting when people shared mp3s on P2P networks then burned them to CDr and eventually re-ripping as WAVE or FLAC.
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Re: What is the easiest way to determine if a FLAC is mp3 sourced?
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I find that looking at the Frequency analysis and Spectral view is the best way. Good discussion the topic over at the Trader's Den.
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4288
A whole forum on lossy or lossless. Lots of info there.
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Re: What is the easiest way to determine if a FLAC is mp3 sourced?
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Agree looking at a simply spectrum graph is most revealing. MP3 audio typically has above 12-15K Hz audio totally missing, or if VBR encoded, has the higher frequencies poping up and then disappearing.
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Re: What is the easiest way to determine if a FLAC is mp3 sourced?
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Even easier is to just use Traders Little Helper to test for MPEG. Pretty damned accurate.
Analysis > Test wav files for mpeg
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TLH can be inaccurate at times, especially on FM sources and stuff that's had noise reduction done.
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Yup, read up on this at The Trader's Den. ALL the information is already there.
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