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

There are many alternatives to Tau Analyzer for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is auCDtect Task Manager, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked four alternatives to Tau Analyzer and three of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Tau Analyzer are Spectro and Audiochecker.
auCDtect Task Manager is a free GUI tool that lets you check if your lossless audio files were upconverted from a "lossy" file format.

Spectro 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.


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.
