AudioAuditor
AudioAuditor: A broad free toolkit for offline audio authenticity, metadata, and library audits. Ranked #19 of 43 in Audio Analysis Software by our editors (6.5/10); pricing: Free plan; best for audio authenticity and metadata auditing.
At a glance
- Editor score6.5 / 10
- PricingFree plan
- Best forAudio authenticity and metadata auditing
- Free planYes
- Paid fromFree
- Facts checked20 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Detects fake lossless, upsampled, clipped, and fake-stereo audio
- Combines AI-audio indicators, fingerprinting, metadata, and reporting
- Free, open source, with no accounts, ads, paid tiers, or locked features
Where it doesn't
- Desktop application is limited to Windows
- macOS is not currently supported
- Real-time analysis is not verified
Our verdict on AudioAuditor
AudioAuditor is an open-source Windows desktop application and cross-platform command-line toolkit for analyzing and managing audio libraries. It is aimed at listeners, archivists, collectors, and audio professionals who need offline checks for file authenticity, metadata quality, loudness, dynamics, and library organization. Its scope extends from technical inspection to playback, with a built-in hi-res audio player, parametric EQ, and visualizers.
The standout strength is breadth in offline auditing. AudioAuditor checks fake lossless and upsampled audio, MQA and MQA Studio, clipping, scaled clipping, fake stereo, and AI-generated-audio indicators based on metadata, byte patterns, provenance, watermarks, and audio signals. FFT spectral analysis estimates effective frequency cutoffs, while waveform, spectrogram, loudness, dynamics, phase, and channel-difference views support deeper comparisons. Batch renaming, duplicate detection, metadata stripping, playlist import, cue-sheet parsing, MusicBrainz enrichment, and exports to Excel, CSV, text, PDF, and Word make it useful beyond one-off file inspection.
The pricing model is unusually straightforward: the Free plan costs 0 and includes open-source distribution, no paid tiers, no locked features, no ads, and no accounts. Integrations connect the workflow to AcoustID, MusicBrainz, SH Labs API, and a wide range of music services, including Spotify, YouTube Music, Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Last.fm, Libre.fm, and ListenBrainz. The main fit question is platform: the desktop application targets Windows, while CLI builds are available for Windows and Linux. Choose AudioAuditor for broad offline analysis and library auditing; choose another option if macOS desktop support or verified real-time analysis is essential.
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AudioAuditor user reviews
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AudioAuditor Integrations
I have integrated AudioAuditorCLI into my project, Audio Fake Detector PRO, as one of the lossless-analysis engines. Audio Fake Detector PRO also integrates other lossless checkers, including Lossless Audio Checker (LAC), FlacCompagnonCLI and FLAD, allowing their results to be combined as complementary analyses. AudioAuditor is therefore part of a multi-engine workflow designed specifically for detecting fake lossless files, transcoded audio and upscaled sources.
Pros- Fast and free
Cons- Don't detects some fake lossless
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AudioAuditor fact sheet
| Free plan | Yes |
|---|---|
| Paid from | Free |
| Real-time analysis | Not verified |
| Offline file analysis | Yes |
| Loudness standards | Yes |
| Maximum channels | Not verified |
| Plugin support | Not verified |
| Analysis views | spectrum, spectrogram, waveform, loudness, dynamics, phase/channel difference |
| Deployment | Desktop |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
| Support | |
| Built for | Solo, Small business (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 17 integrations: AcoustID, MusicBrainz, SH Labs API, Spotify, YouTube Music, Tidal … |
| Pricing | Free plan (source) |
| Website | audioauditor.org |
| Facts checked | 20 Sep 2026 |
AudioAuditor integrations
AudioAuditor lists 17 integrations on its own site.
- AcoustID
- MusicBrainz
- SH Labs API
- Spotify
- YouTube Music
- Tidal
- Qobuz
- Amazon Music
- Apple Music
- Deezer
- SoundCloud
- Bandcamp
- Last.fm
- Libre.fm
- ListenBrainz
- Maloja
- Discord
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