Re: [LAU] Lossy audio to lossless format

Am 01.10.2014 11:31, schrieb Markus Seeber:
> On 1. Oktober 2014 11:21:02 MESZ, Egor Sanin <egor.sanin@email-addr-hidden>
> wrote:
>
> On 10/1/14, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 10:54 +0200, Egor Sanin wrote:
>
> I get the feeling at times, when getting music from
> torrents and such, that not all files claiming to be flac
> are actually lossless.
>
> How do you get the impression?
>
>
> I get this impression by an unreliable method called intuition, and I
> am wondering if there exists a reliable method that I can use to
> confirm or refute this intuition.
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> To reproduce your Intuition, you can only use your intuition...
> Im not sure... do you want to find out if the material souds good, vor
> do you want to detect Codecs?
> For the first, use intuition, for the second i am not aware of tools
> dedicated to that usecase.
> -- Markus
>
>

Maybe Spek could be of some help here:
http://spek.cc/

and here is a guide to use it for your purpose

http://www.techsupportalert.com/How-to-find-out-the-actual-quality-of-an-audio-file

regards
hermann

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Received on Wed Oct 1 16:15:02 2014