Audio CD Health Check program

I have just released a new program called

!CD_HealthCheck

This can be used to carry out a statistical analysis of the samples on an
Audio CD. The results allow you to detect when the recording has been
degraded by poor analogue to digital conversion or the application of
‘improvements’ made by the producers that actually mangle the details that
end up on the CD.

The program is available from

http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/software/index.html

This contains a !Help file outlining how to use it.

There is also a webpage at

http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/HFN/HealthCheck/CD.html

which illustrates some of the kinds of defects it can reveal.

As usual for my programs, the source code is provided.

Jim Lesurf

I have just released a new version of !CD_HealthCheck.

Version 0.60 provides an additional way to analyse and examine the
statistics of audio sample values from an Audio CD. This can make it easier
to spot when there are flaws caused by poor recording or processing. It can
also help diagnose the cause of the flaws and indicate why the sound is
poorer than it might otherwise be!

The program is available from the same place as given in the original announcement, above.

Jim Lesurf