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