Finding out if a FLAC or WAVPACK audio file is NOT originally encoded from a lossy source
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Is there a way of checking that the so-called FLAC or WAVPACK audio file was originally encoded from a lossless source (WAV, CDA, APE, etc.) instead of a lossy source (MP3, AAC, ATRAC, etc.)? Say I have a lossy MP3 audio file (5.17Mb, 87% compressed from its original, source unknown). I then encode…
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Fix for: Finding out if a FLAC or WAVPACK audio file is NOT originally encoded from a lossy source
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The best way to determine if something has been sourced from a lossy source, is creating a spectrogram: One can clearly see that it goes up to the 22.1kHz a proper CD has. When transcoded to a lossy MP3 128kbps, you can clearly see the destructive w…
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