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Lebon14 | Posted: Mar 4 2011, 02:37 AM |
🎧 Group: Advanced Members Posts: 6,594 Member No.: 18,005 Joined: May 25th 2006 Location: Canada | Hello everybody. I'm pretty sure you saw me b*tch about it in the past. Well, now, I want people to gain knowledge on how to spot them. I will explain roughly on how to detect transcodes with two softwares : 1. Adobe Audition (Trial should do the job, but still ~400$ to buy). 2. Audacity (Free and open source - google it). 3. Spek : http://www.spek-project.org/ (Not covered here, but straight forward) ------------------- So, to start off, let's get a little background. Let's say someone shared you an extended from Super Eurobeat 183 for a long time and somebody suddenly step in and share, OMG, a MP3 320!!! But is this MP3 320 is really a good MP3 320k encode? Let's see how to find out. Adobe Audition The best software out there for that is the Adobe Audition line. To check it out, load your MP3 and go into Waveform mode (aka single file edit mode) and click in the waveform somewhere in the tune. Then go Window -> Frequencies Analysis. A window should appear with the analysis at the current point in the song. Audacity The free solution and it is able to let you know what you want. Google and install. Load your song and click somewhere on it then go Analysis -> Plot Spectrum. Audacity will prompt that it can only analysis like the 4 first minutes, but that's more than enough. A graphic should appear. That's what you want. But... but... that's all good but what frenquencies is what quality Check this out : click to enlarge Be sure to enlarge the picture. Even if those are "approximative", it should give you a good idea. If the song was originall VBR, you can spot this by seeing that it settles for a minimum and a maximum frequency instead of only of a maximum. Your best bet is to play the end to see if quality diminish with less sound. Happens a lot for AAC. Anyway, I won't go into details. Note that, I reserve right to remove a download if it's transcoded. Suspect list EVERYTHING that was downloaded from iTunes Japan (m4p 128kbps), mu-mo/mora (DROM WMA 128kbps) and Musico (DRM WMA 128kbps for Avex releases). You CANNOT get extra quality by encoding at 320kbps. So, the "extended" that you got for you SEB 183 song has probably been downloaded from mu-mo/mora or Musico. Be sure to check with either software and if it was badly encoded, re-encode accordingly to save space and to have exact information. Exception from iTunes Japan : if the item was "iTunes Plus", it's still transcoded (because M4A 256k VBR is better quality than MP3 320) but less noticeable. It's annoying to everybody, don't try to hide the truth, somebody will unveil it someday. This post has been edited by Lebon14 on Apr 9 2011, 10:54 PM |
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K1RZA | Posted: Mar 4 2011, 06:04 AM |
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Lebon14 | Posted: Mar 4 2011, 12:55 PM | ||
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Good find, mate! | ||
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Lebon14 | Posted: Apr 9 2011, 10:55 PM |
🎧 Group: Advanced Members Posts: 6,594 Member No.: 18,005 Joined: May 25th 2006 Location: Canada | Added a software called Spek at the beginning of the 1st post. Its only purpose is to check the spectrum. Highly recommanded! |
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K1RZA | Posted: Apr 10 2011, 02:36 AM | ||
IDW Prime Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 518 Member No.: 26,168 Joined: Aug 23rd 2007 Location: Russia | It seems not only do I recommend http://www.spek-project.org/ Image size reduced, original size: 670 x 532. Click here to view the image in its original dimension.
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Ralli380Gvr4 | Posted: Jan 8 2013, 11:28 AM |
IDW Member Group: Members Posts: 13 Member No.: 40,034 Joined: Jan 8th 2013 Location: Update Profile | Good knowledge if your making some eurobeat. |
kyonpalm | Posted: Jan 8 2013, 03:12 PM | ||
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Why would this be useful for music production? | ||
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Nomake Wan | Posted: Jan 8 2013, 05:11 PM | ||
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Shh. Don't question the antics of a newbie trying to buff up his post count for certain purposes. | ||
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Lebon14 | Posted: Jan 9 2013, 11:04 AM | ||
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LOL, good point. But he isn't half-wrong though... if you are using samples to create your music and want your final result to be 100% lossless, you should know how to spot those transcoded samples. | ||
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kyonpalm | Posted: Jan 9 2013, 01:50 PM | ||
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I was going to mention that if the conversation got a little deeper, actually. | ||
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dexter9898 | Posted: Nov 7 2014, 09:14 PM |
Dexter's Lab 🔬 Group: Members Posts: 25 Member No.: 44,900 Joined: Nov 7th 2014 Location: Update Profile | Spek is really a good software. But some avex cds during the 90s and early 2000 can show poor results on the spectrum too. |
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eXtaticus | Posted: Nov 7 2014, 09:28 PM |
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K1RZA | Posted: Nov 8 2014, 12:45 AM | ||
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Then it is better to use auCDtect Task Manager. Although the algorithms are the same. This post has been edited by K1RZA on Jan 8 2015, 06:39 AM | ||
KonradZuse | Posted: Nov 8 2014, 11:11 AM |
IDW Expert Member Group: Members Posts: 106 Member No.: 43,074 Joined: Mar 3rd 2014 Location: United States | I just saw this thread so I wanted to say that I have a license of Adobe CC, and I believe Audition is in the suite. I am curious if that will help me learn more about audio in general (some of the comments made it seem that some of these programs aren't good for making music)? Just curious if it's something I should look at? No clue about audio creation/editing etc, would like to learn though. |
K1RZA | Posted: Jan 26 2015, 10:29 AM |
IDW Prime Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 518 Member No.: 26,168 Joined: Aug 23rd 2007 Location: Russia | Add useful links. Suddenly someone come in handy. Adobe Audition CS6 5.0.2 Portable Adobe Audition CC 2014 Portable My Foobar (1.3.7) Portable This post has been edited by K1RZA on Feb 1 2015, 11:33 AM |
sderenzi | Posted: Jan 29 2015, 10:36 AM |
IDW Full Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Member No.: 26,134 Joined: Aug 22nd 2007 Location: Update Profile | I've rather been fond of this actually http://spectro.enpts.com/ About Spectro 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. This allows you to quickly and easily spot quality issues with a file and also look for transcodes. Spectro will soon support an automatic transcode detection feature and will be able to scan your music library for suspect files. |
bombers | Posted: Aug 25 2015, 10:31 PM |
IDW Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 91 Member No.: 26,885 Joined: Oct 4th 2007 Location: Update Profile | Guys, I need some help about transcode files. See, I've been finding a lot of JPop mainstream flac files over the web, they have a good spectrum (it does goes over 20khz) but they just sound ... wierd. It doens't sound like a 192kbps mp3, does sounds like a 320kbps mp3, but does not sound clear as a flac, or any type of flac. So, the problem now it is that although people do rip their cds into flac, they don't do it the right way. And I've been struggling to decide which source of flac is good enough to keep. Well, lately I've been enjoying more JIdol music, so right now my playlist is more on the loveline, akb, baby metal, morning musume kinda side. So, I've been using mainly the auCDtect Task Manager Kirza posted, and most of the time they go around 79% MPEG for those misterious flac files. But when I check the spectrums, they always go over 20khz. So, in my mind, and here is where I need help to clarify things, is: how the heck I'm suppose to read a spectrum? Is there anything in particular on a FLAC file I'm suppose to look at to know if this is a good FLAC? |
Lebon14 | Posted: Aug 26 2015, 05:06 AM |
🎧 Group: Advanced Members Posts: 6,594 Member No.: 18,005 Joined: May 25th 2006 Location: Canada | Mind to post some of them? Also, it doesn't mean that the spectral goes over 20KHz that it's lossless. MP3 320kbps's cutoff is 20.5KHz for exemple... |
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bombers | Posted: Aug 26 2015, 08:06 AM |
IDW Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 91 Member No.: 26,885 Joined: Oct 4th 2007 Location: Update Profile | Sure, do you want the files or the spectrum? Thanks already for the help They actually cut around 21.5hz This post has been edited by bombers on Aug 26 2015, 08:07 AM |
Lebon14 | Posted: Aug 26 2015, 08:44 AM |
🎧 Group: Advanced Members Posts: 6,594 Member No.: 18,005 Joined: May 25th 2006 Location: Canada | I'd like to have the FLAC themselves, if possible. You don't need to upload the whole album. |
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bombers | Posted: Aug 27 2015, 02:59 AM |
IDW Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 91 Member No.: 26,885 Joined: Oct 4th 2007 Location: Update Profile | I will try my best to upload it today, yesterday a bunch of work came in so I'm a bit overwhelmed, sorry to make you wait. https://mega.nz/#F!R9820IrL Here are the samples, I would appreciate the directions you will take to consider the flac "real" lossless or "fake". This post has been edited by bombers on Aug 27 2015, 09:29 PM |
Lebon14 | Posted: Sep 1 2015, 01:24 PM | ||
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I can't download that. I need the encrypting key which you gladly from the link when you copied it off MEGA by unchecking that box... This post has been edited by Lebon14 on Sep 1 2015, 01:26 PM | ||
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bombers | Posted: Sep 1 2015, 02:56 PM |
IDW Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 91 Member No.: 26,885 Joined: Oct 4th 2007 Location: Update Profile | so sorry: https://mega.nz/#F!R9820IrL!4dPEuKoQ9Z_rBaGyBoUihg please let me know if it works |
Lebon14 | Posted: Sep 1 2015, 03:13 PM |
🎧 Group: Advanced Members Posts: 6,594 Member No.: 18,005 Joined: May 25th 2006 Location: Canada | Heavy Rotation is 100% lossless. The rest is lossy sourced. I don't know what codec was used beforehand though. EDIT I downloaded the single for "12 Gatsu No Kangaroo" from a reputable source that had a EAC ripping log. I can tell you that it's legit. It looks lossy but I guess it's not. I can check HKT48 soon. EDIT 2 Same for HKT48. Now, that I think about, it might be a 24-bit / 48KHz to 16-bit / 44.1KHz thing. And after a convertion of mine... it might. Anyway, it might just be lossy mastering. This post has been edited by Lebon14 on Sep 1 2015, 03:38 PM |
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bombers | Posted: Sep 1 2015, 04:47 PM |
IDW Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 91 Member No.: 26,885 Joined: Oct 4th 2007 Location: Update Profile | Lebon, thank you very much! I remembered the posts about lossy mastering around the forum and though that that might be the reason why it seems like it was transcoded. It might happen because the ab48 groups always press a lot of cds because its goodies (voting tickets etc) and therefore the final quality sucks... So I think for those particular groups it might get down to how well is my "hearing". Right? btw, if the cd has a log, and i use the cuetools to check, will it confirm that it wasnt a transcode? This post has been edited by bombers on Sep 1 2015, 05:21 PM |
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