Audiochecker 2.0.0.457 Beta

4.4 out of 5 stars 4.4 (11 votes)

BETA (April 20, 2006)

Windows (All) / Freeware / 1,991 downloads

Audiochecker checks the origin of APE, FLAC, SHN, WAV and LPAC files or audio CD tracks. It can decide in most cases, whether the encoding is lossless or not (transcoded from other lossy, for example MP3 audio source). If not, the 'lossless' file is fake.

  • Publisher

    Dester

  • Homepage

    Audiochecker

  • Uninstaller

    Yes

  • Latest Changes

    - Note: the beta versions come without documentation and installer. Just unzip the files to a new directory.

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  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    hell0

    Reviewing 2.0.0.457 Beta (Sep 13, 2007)

    I'm not sure how accurate or trustworthy the results are--there's no documentation explaining the process of analysis or how the results are produced. Some of the output could be clearer: does "This track looks like MPEG with probability 95%" mean that the source is "probably" MP2 or "probably" MP3.

    It's a good idea though, hence a middle rating.

  2. 4 out of 5 stars
    TGB72

    Reviewing 2.0.0.457 Beta (Aug 4, 2007)

    @JEdwardP blame AuCDtect (http://www.true-audio.co...t_version_0.8_release_3), Audiochecker is just a gui that use a couple of CLI codecs (FLAC, APE...) to decode the tracks to WAV and then just proced to analyze them with the program mentioned above. It has passed a while since the author announced the arrival of the final version, I hope that the project still alive.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    rburly

    Reviewing 2.0.0.457 Beta (Jun 22, 2006)

    I should give this sofware a 4, but because the author seems to be doing a good job with his work on this, I'll give a 5 for now.
    I had the software check definite lossless files and it was 100% correct, as well as previously suspected lossy files, which came as "95% MPEG". I also had an 85% certain lossy file (MPEG is all I've seen).
    Hopefully the author will continue to work at this because this can save so much time if it's as accurate as claimed. Good start!

  4. 2 out of 5 stars
    JEdwardP

    Reviewing 2.0.0.457 Beta (Jun 22, 2006)

    I'd originally reviewed this and given it a 3, pending the addition of WavPack support.

    Since then, however, I've found it to be extremely inaccurate in testing both WAV and FLAC files. I took a 384 kbps LAME mp3, decoded it with MAD, and tested it, with the result that this software claimed the source was CDDA (100%). The same WAV, when encoded as a FLAC file, produced the same test results.

    I'm hardly ready to give up on this software, for I believe the idea is very good, but honesty compels me to report that idea is far from realized, in any functional way, at this point.

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