Maix 50 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Hey guys =) Can anyone help me finding a way to find out the "real" bitrate of audiofiles, and not the one, that is writting into the tags or upconverted bitrates ?! A freeware would be the best ;) I'd really appreciate your service, Max Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LipglossLuxury 5 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I've been waiting to ask this question all my GGD life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KING5KAT 223 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I've been waiting to ask this question all my GGD life. SAME. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godspoken 1 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Only way you could know the quote-unquote "real" bitrate is to rip the CD yourself as an FLAC file. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KING5KAT 223 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Only way you could know the quote-unquote "real" bitrate is to rip the CD yourself as an FLAC file. No it's not :P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godspoken 1 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 No it's not :P Allllrighty then...what is? I mean, sure, you could steal RedOne's computer and look at his files, but the best you're going to get otherwise is on a CD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KING5KAT 223 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Allllrighty then...what is? I mean, sure, you could steal RedOne's computer and look at his files, but the best you're going to get otherwise is on a CD. As in if I saved a 128kbs file as a 320kbs file it would be read at as a 320kbs file but it is a 128kbs file. We all want to know how we could find out if it really is a 128kbs file. Make ANY sense? :D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maix 50 Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 THIS! I know you have to a--lyse the spectrum somehow, but I just dont know HOW :P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pushemission 3 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 This might clear a few things up. You can't get a tool that can a--lyse an audio file and spit a numbered bitrate back out (to my knowledge), but you can learn to read spectrum a--lysis results to spot a file that's lesser quality than appears. http://idforums.net/...showtopic=42706 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingAlanI 3 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 There's some program out there that can guess whether FLAC's are from a lossy source, but I forget what it's called. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
8847759385 160 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I know that my source taught me a way on Audicity. It was like a chart. If the chart cutoff early, it was an MP3. And if not, it was true lossless. I'll look into it when I get home from school Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
creeves 245 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 This is the program that I use: http://spek-project.org/ I don't know what the graphs for 128kbps, 320 kbps, etc songs should look like, I just use the program to compare quality. Hope this helps! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leaf 2,429 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I feel like I've been fooled this whole time. I'm so OCD about my music and all this time I've been listening to crappy quality. :ohno: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
unpetitmonstre 0 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 You can usually tell if something is lossless or not just by listening to it (at least I can). Does it really matter anyway? If you get a file @320kbps, but was really 128kbps or 256kbps (the size difference is minimal)? No, you're not going to notice any discernible difference (unless it wasn't compressed properly and has compression artifacts). People usually package .log files with FLAC stuff though, which shows that it was compressed from a lossless file or CD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
link343 0 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 All you need to know about Spectral Analysis: http://blowfish.be/eac/Spectral/spectral.html The Program to use: http://spectro.enpts.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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