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Spek is a simple, compact program that is used to display a visual spectrogram of an audio file. Simply drag and drop the file from your computer's file browser into the program and it will generate a frequency graph of the audio file, indicating which parts of the audio codecs frequency range are being used, and at which time.

Just a bit more: why Spek's icon is a pig. Spek is short for spektrum, the Dutch spelling for spectrum. A spectrum analyzer is a measurement tool that displays real-time frequency analysis of incoming audio signals, displaying them as a waveform graph. That's what the program does. Spek is also the Dutch word for bacon. So the icon is a pig.

The most common reason to use Spek is to figure out if a lossless audio file is really lossless by checking the cutoff frequency (typically 15-16 KHz cutoff is not lossless audio), or maybe the compression levels of the audio, or something. There's lots of reasons to use one.

The guide is pretty detailed. Mostly I look for that 16k shelf (or other shelves). In your track there is a clear 16k shelf indicating this track was transcoded from a lower bitrate. Really, my ears are my guide, if a track doesn't sound …

Although the one on the right has content above 16 kHz, that very abrupt change at that frequency, along with the similarity to the same cutoff in the one on the left, suggests to me that everything above 16 kHz is noise in both of them.

Ola guys, Quick question about Audio-quality and bitrates: Everybody says converting youtube videos to mp3s suck for mixing, because it's never 320 kbps (minimum for decent quality on bigger speakers).

Spek seems good to me, but from experience it is not as accurate as Fakin the funk, sometimes it can't detect well the real quality of the tracks, but for being free, I can't complain. I have been using the trial version of Fakin the funk when I was in doubt after analysing some tracks with Spek.

Spek is a simple, compact program that is used to display a visual spectrogram of an audio file. Simply drag and drop the file from your computer's file browser into the program and it will generate a frequency graph of the audio file, indicating which parts of the audio codec's frequency range are being used, and at which time.

Hello all. I was looking around for useful apps/programs for library management and came across Spek.cc. This tool looks really handy for analyzing some of the questionable songs to see what the actual bitrate is. The app was last updated years ago and doesn't run in the latest MacOS version.