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
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Tau Analyzer Alternatives
Apps similar to Tau Analyzer include auCDtect Task Manager, which is free. Other options are Spectro, Audiochecker and Spectrum. In total there are four apps like Tau Analyzer for Windows and the web.
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
Modeled after the spectrum effect in Ableton Live , Spectrum is a free and open-source web app that shows frequencies of an MP3 or OGG file in real-time.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Online
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