Audio Fake Detector PRO

[Alessandro Comito]

Audio Fake Detector PRO is a a tool developed by me, designed to identify audio files passed off as "high quality" (lossless or high
bitrate) but which actually come from compressed and lossy sources, such as MP3

Audio Fake Detector PRO

Detects audio sourced from low-bitrate material (e.g. 128–160 kbps MP3s) that has been transcoded or upscaled to fake high-bitrate or lossless formats. https://github.com/alessandrocomito/audiofakedetectorpro/

www.audiosciencereview.com

 

[brad225]

Please don't take this personally but, can't you tell by listening, if they are not high quality?

Brad

 

[Alessandro Comito]

Please don't take this personally but, can't you tell by listening, if they are not high quality?

Brad

Hi Brad,

No offense taken at all! It’s a very fair question, and actually, it highlights exactly why this tool was built.

While the human ear is incredible at judging the artistic quality of music, it has severe physical and psychological limitations when it comes to technical verification and digital forensics. Here is why listening isn't enough:

• The Psychoacoustic Brick Wall: When a low-quality file is upsampled, encoders use psychoacoustic models to remove frequencies that the human brain thinks it can't hear due to auditory masking. A fake lossless file might sound "good enough" or even "great" to our ears, but the spectral data doesn't lie. The missing frequencies are permanently gone.
• The Hardware Variable: To catch high-frequency caps or subtle upsampling by ear, you need studio-grade monitors, an excellent DAC, a treated room, and pristine hearing. The software provides an objective baseline regardless of your listening environment.
• Automation of Deep Analysis: Listening to a full track to catch anomalies requires undivided attention and significant time. While this tool focuses on a deep, thorough analysis rather than rushed speed, it automates the tedious process of inspecting entire folders, delivering detailed, reproducible logs without human fatigue.
• Objective vs. Subjective: Human hearing is highly subjective and changes with fatigue, age, and mood. Digital forensics requires binary, reproducible proof (like looking at a spectral cutoff or bitstream characteristics), which is exactly what an automated analyzer provides.

In short: our ears tell us if we like how it sounds; the tool tells us exactly what the file structurally is. Hope this clears up the philosophy behind it!

 

[crwilli]

Audio Fake Detector PRO is a a tool developed by me, designed to identify audio files passed off as "high quality" (lossless or high
bitrate) but which actually come from compressed and lossy sources, such as MP3

Audio Fake Detector PRO

Detects audio sourced from low-bitrate material (e.g. 128–160 kbps MP3s) that has been transcoded or upscaled to fake high-bitrate or lossless formats. https://github.com/alessandrocomito/audiofakedetectorpro/

www.audiosciencereview.com

Please don't take this personally but, can't you tell by listening, if they are not high quality?

Brad

Seems this will only work on a Windows machine?

 

[Alessandro Comito]

Updated 2026-08-03

 

[Randy Myers]

Seems this will only work on a Windows machine?

hmmm, to me this is not an issue ...

I recently gave in and got an iPhone because my wife wants to face time with our kids around the country. Apple refuses to allow facetiming with an Android.

I deem that there are more things a like than different. Both phones (Android & Apple) have most of the same functions. However, both my wife and myself believe that the Apple is quite a bit more of a PITA than the Androids. Things that were simply on the Android are harder on the Apple. One very simply example (and I stress this is only one, we have found many more similar examples) is to close all open apps. On the Android it is a single Close All button, on the Apple I have to literally swipe every single app that has been opened for whatever reason, which is always numerous apps.

Anyway, back to Windows. I helped my buddy with his Apple computers when I spent 4 months at his house prior to my retirement date and joining my wife at our new home in Kansas. Every issue he had I was able to figure out, but on the Apple computers it was always 10-20 PITA steps and work arounds while on my Windows machines there are always five ways of doing just about everything. Maybe this is simply my professional software developer background, but it always felt like Big Brother looking over my shoulder throwing up roadblocks upon roadblocks.

Ok, off my Apple/Windows soap box. Yes, he should offer both versions if at all possible.