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indeed!

sit back and I will tell you all about the good the bad and the ugly software we used to use. some of it is better than anything we have now, and largely forgotten. some of it was crap.

here's an excellent freeware from 2000, still works perfectly on win10 straight out of the box. now that's a software!

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back at sharingthegroove.org (RIP 2004) every "is this FLAC mp3-sourced?" thread was full of people looking for clues in frequency analysis graphs. "could you change x setting and post another screencap, please?" was the order of the day. in the end, fa helped a little, good sa solved the puzzle.

audacity can do a fine frequency analysis, sure, but there was another fa freeware soft that was strongly preferred by all: AnalFreq v1.8

find it here:
afreq18.zip 28-Aug-2000 09:24 59K

856aaf2edbf4b558c98d9f0e4a0e3c8f *afreq18.zip

4ba7897a89c00c77fb5bf343ce644bb0 *AnalFreq.exe
0128eb119dc595a393460fbceba71540 *FFT.DLL
e13fca2618fe5a1fa5268b4a2aae576c *readme.txt
9de840be66582ad2293fd48f19a7b20f *UserManual.rtf

dead original homepage (not on archive.org)

I still laugh remembering U2Lynne telling ppl to download this prog, "yes, it's really called that!"