auCDtect Task Manager is a free GUI tool that lets you check if your lossless audio files were upconverted from a "lossy" file format.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
Czechia
EU
Spectrum Alternatives
Sites and apps similar to Spectrum include auCDtect Task Manager, which is free. Other options are Spectro, Audiochecker, Tau Analyzer and sndpeek. In total there are five sites and apps like Spectrum for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Alternatives list
25 Spectro alternativesSpectro is a freeware audio file analyzer for windows. Currently capable of reading FLAC, APE, MP3 and WAV files. Spectro lets you view vital data about compressed audio files and creates a spectrogram of the wave data.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Audiochecker is a tiny and portable tool which analyzes the source of WAV, LPAC, SHN, APE and FLAC audio formats, in order to verify if the encoding is lossless. If not, it means that the files in question are converted from other formats with lower quality, such as MP3.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
Tau Analyzer is a free program, which can help you to distinguish with reasonable accuracy the original studio-based CDs from poor quality fakes, that have been "reconstructed" using a lossy audio source, such as MP3.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Russia
