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Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
So I'm FINALLY organizing and categorizing my 300+ CD-Rs of shows, and I'm checking them out for lossy before archiving them.
I'm using EAC for making WAVs and the using Trader's Little Helper (version 2.4.1, build 160) to test them and so far I've tested 4 CDs for lossy and I've gotten the following results: 1, source of track cannot be qualified 2, track looks like CDDA with probability 100% 3, track looks like MPEG with probability 95% What do these results mean? I got the idea that "track looks like MPEG with probability 95%" means the disc is lossy and that "track looks like CDDA with probability 100%" means it's lossless, but what does "source of track cannot be qualified" mean? Is it lossless or lossy? Thanks for any help!
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
I'd like to add the following questions:
how accurate is Trader's Little Help recognizing lossy sources? what if I got a track looks like CDDA with probability 99%? does that makes it lossy? thanks ps- I didn't even know TLH had that option
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
I got a track with CDDA 56%. So again, does that mean it's lossy?
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
Again, I didnt even know you could do that with TLH. I just test a cd and got a few tracks with 100% and some with 94% and it's just one source apparently so let's wait for someone more tech savvy to help us out
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
I was actually directing my last question to others but yea. I got one that is definitely MP3 sourced, but it reports it as 61% CDDA.
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
the mp3 detection in TLH is a joke, its not much better than a ouija board. if its very very obviously lossy it will pick up on it but beware of false negatives and positives.
check this thread for a bit of info, also take a look in a couple of the threads in this forum to get an idea what to look for.
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
thanx Five
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
Thanks five. What would you recommend for easy lossy detection?
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
Never mind my last post, I saw the link you posted which I previously missed.
Thanks again!
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
So, my question would be then, is there any way to check a file WITHOUT the spectrum analysis?
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
No. There is no easy automated way. they're more useful for the negatives than positives. If it says it's clean, it's pretty much clean. But almost all software has a crappy percentage when it comes to false positives for lossiness.
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
I guess I'll have to learn how to read spectrums, I've already tried a few times but I just don't get it.
thanks
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
Hi rspencer,
What is meant by "all software has a crappy percentage when it comes to false positives for lossiness. " ? is there software which make them clean?
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
I am not tech savvy and am resistant to change but one thing I have learned very slowly is that you need to "learn" how to use various bits of software; like TLH, Foobar, CEP, EAC etc, to work with your boots.
Awhile back on TC I took umbrage with a member there for going on about Specs and Freqs to prove lossy/lossless. Well the worm has turned and I have to give him an apology (I will once I find him). The best way to find out if the show you have is OK or not is to look at a spectral graphic and a frequency analysis. Sure it takes time to learn and figure out what you're looking at but it's worth it. There are good guides here (thanks Drgiggles1) and there are members who will help out enormously when asked. As "Molly" used to say, "do yourself a favour" and learn and use software that's out there. I am.
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Re: Question about using Trader's Little Helper to Spot Lossy
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to detect lossiness, you need to be able to visually analyze the file(s) yerself using Frequency Analysis (FA) & Spectral Analysis (SA)...there are various programs which can do one or both, some better than others...but any "built-in automatic lossy-detection" feature is not gonna be accurate No members have liked this post.
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