Fakin The Funk - Detecting Transcodes

[JahNuhDead]

This was introduced to me on another site. I've always found it a pain in the neck to use Audacity to determine if tracks are transcodes. This is not perfect, but I've found it to be pretty reliable. I am in no way, shape or form associated with this product myself. Just thought it would be useful to folks here. https://fakinthefunk.net/en/phone/

[godzfire]

I do all sorts of audio work and I have to constantly properly determine an audio's true quality. As such, I have two recommendations over that site, which I've tried before and aren't a fan of:

#1- Spek (FREE - http://spek.cc/): A small, cross platform, and simple spectrum analyser.

• Supports all popular lossy and lossless audio file formats thanks to the FFmpeg libraries.
• Ultra-fast signal processing, uses multiple threads to further speed up the analysis.
• Shows the codec name and the audio signal parameters.
• Allows to save the spectrogram as an image file.
• Drag-and-drop support; associates with common audio file formats.
• Auto-fitting time, frequency and spectral density rulers.
• Adjustable spectral density range.
• Translated into 19 languages.

#2- Adobe Audition (PAID): If you already have Audition, there's a built in option by going to View -> Show Spectral Frequency Display. This is the one I live by.