[LAU] Lossy audio to lossless format

[hermann meyer]

Am 01.10.2014 11:31, schrieb Markus Seeber:
> On 1. Oktober 2014 11:21:02 MESZ, Egor Sanin <egor.sanin at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 10/1/14, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> 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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