well what is fairly easy to tell is lossy vs lossless sources. the steep cutoff in the fa and blocks visible in the zoomed in sa are the giveaways. pure black in the high frequencies of the sa is also an artifact of lossy encoding in the lineage.
when it comes to md it can be difficult to really tell the diff since it is lossy just like mp3 et al. the blocks often look a little more hyphen-like.
it is possible sometimes that an md recording has also been converted to mp3 this is one of the most difficult things to spot. your zoomed in sa is 2ms would be better if that was 2sec ( 0:02.000 in the view/length stat). If you want to upload a sample via yousendit.com post the link here and I can download it and have a look on my end.
One thing that is unfortunate about the show in question here is that it seems to have been recorded at a quite low quality setting and as a result the sound will be worse than the average mp3, which cuts off at 16kHz
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