So I was DJing with a friend of mine & I kept complaining about his shitty Mp3 files, I mean the track selection was tasty but the sound..ouch!
Anyway, he did some research and came back with this!
http://www.walterdevos.be/how-to-che...ty-of-mp3-file
Freakin fantastic and it works :eek:
I found a freeware spectrum analyzer over at http://www.spek-project.org/. This is great to confirm your suspicions about your dodgy files before drilling a hole in everybody's head on the massive soundsystems.
Cheers,
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11-15-2011, 04:11 PM #1Tech Mentor
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How to check quality of MP3 files
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11-15-2011, 04:40 PM #2
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Nice find.
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11-16-2011, 12:11 AM #3
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or just pay for your tunes. crazy idea i know.
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11-16-2011, 01:06 AM #4Tech Guru
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you could also use your ears, they are what most people would use, you shouldn't need to rely on a computer program to tell you what something sounds like, once you start you will never develop the ability to do it naturally.
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11-16-2011, 03:03 AM #5Tech Mentor
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ahh yes spectrals
i had a program that some one made at an audio forum that was made to spot trannys(transcodes :P) it would basically analyze the spectral of a track and tell you what the original quality was . it was pretty useful, but i forgot the name of it 
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11-16-2011, 03:23 AM #6Tech Guru
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Still that is pretty interesting!
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11-16-2011, 03:28 AM #7Tech Mentor
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also this reminds me... i need to check my top40 collection for transcodes. i had a subscription with DMS but canceled when i started noticing that some of the songs i was getting from there sounded like complete crap... if i come across that program again i'll be sure to post it here.
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11-16-2011, 03:48 AM #8Tech Guru
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I understand that 'once compressed/lost - always lost', but what if one has a track (a legitimate paid for one Jes
) that is only available in 256kbps (the extended mix of "Torch" by Soft Cell) - can that file be 'enhanced'? I see lots of reference to Audacity, which I have not used, but do have the latest version of Nero.
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11-16-2011, 03:57 AM #9Tech Guru
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Audacity is free dude!
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11-16-2011, 04:05 AM #10Tech Guru
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Prefer Nero Mr.P, but Audacity sure seems the choice here. But, will I get an 'enhanced' version of my 256kbps file with EITHER?
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