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Audio Clipping Detector?

Simply put, looking for a piece of software than can detect clipping in an audio file.

Audio Clipping Detector?

Reply #1
Simply put, looking for a piece of software than can detect clipping in an audio file.

Are these 16/44.1 or 16/48 WAV files? If they are, then you might want to have a look at Wave Repair. Although it's primarily intended as a restoration tool for recordings of vinyl records, it has a fairly configurable clip detector (which continues to work after the evaluation period expires). If you want to give it a go, start by going to File > Options > Operations and then click the Help button.

Audio Clipping Detector?

Reply #2
Audacity also has a "view clipping" option that comes in handy. I don't know if this is important for you, but it'll handle any bit depth/sampling rate you throw at it too, and several format types, including FLAC and MP3, and it's nice and free.

Audio Clipping Detector?

Reply #3
Audacity also has a "view clipping" option that comes in handy. I don't know if this is important for you, but it'll handle any bit depth/sampling rate you throw at it too, and several format types, including FLAC and MP3, and it's nice and free.


Big note with Audacity's feature is that:

A) it marks single samples that hit 0 exactly with a bright red line. That's not really clipping detection, but it can be useful for it.
B) when zooming out, the red lines often form big blocks, falsely suggesting that a track has tons and tons of clipping. Zooming in you will often see that the red blocks break up into lines, and that it's really only the odd sample here and there that hits 0.
C) if you were to amplify the waveform so that it's guaranteed to clip, and then scale it back, it's still very much clipped, but Audacity shows you no red lines, obviously.

So in short: red lines usually don't indicate clipping, and always look a little further at what's happening at those points.

 

Audio Clipping Detector?

Reply #4
It depends what you mean by clipping.