FLAC made from iTunes AAC LC - how to detect? |
FLAC made from iTunes AAC LC - how to detect? |
Jan 18 2013, 19:22
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Hello.
Since about 3 years I buy music at Beatport and Junodownload, sometimes at Trackitdown. I prefer CD quality, so mostly I buy lossless files (WAV/AIFF at Beatport and FLAC at Juno). Unfortunately several times I found that some of files that I bought were just transcodes from some kind of lossy format. I assume that were transcodes from MP3, as it's most popular and bandwidth of audio signal was cut off at specific frequencies like 16,5 kHz (128kbps), 18,6 kHz (192kbps) or 20,1 (320kbps) kHz. It is easy to find such thing - I can just see spectrogram in foobar2k (with linear frequency scale selected) or use auCDtectTaskManager. But about month ago I bought one album at iTunes - just because of iTunes bonus track available only with full album. I investigated how it is encoded (I've never tried AAC at higher bitrates before) and I found that iTunes albums have full frequency scale, despite they are lossy... There's no low pass filtering known to me from MP3. I've transcoded whole album into FLAC with foobar and then I passed FLACs through auCDtectTaskManager. All files were concluded as 100% CDDA... I was shocked. So my question is - is there any other method to determine authenticity of lossless file? Any software tool that uses better algorithm than auCDtect, or just different algorithm tuned specifically for detecting HQ AAC transcodes? Thank you in advance for any help. |
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EpicForever FLAC made from iTunes AAC LC - how to detect? Jan 18 2013, 19:22
saratoga QUOTE (EpicForever @ Jan 18 2013, 13:22) ... Jan 18 2013, 19:34
EpicForever I know. But lowpass filtering used as element of p... Jan 18 2013, 21:47
Woodinville If you can find a section of your music with a sta... Jan 18 2013, 21:50
Dynamic Sometimes listening to the SIDE channel signal of ... Jan 19 2013, 12:50
Mach-X QUOTE (Dynamic @ Jan 19 2013, 06:50) Some... Jan 20 2013, 03:03
EpicForever Thank you for your help. I see it's really tri... Jan 20 2013, 10:58
db1989 QUOTE (EpicForever @ Jan 20 2013, 09:58) ... Jan 20 2013, 16:50
Dynamic Yes, I did mean TOS#9 that if you post a sample it... Jan 21 2013, 11:22![]() ![]() |
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