Lobith Audio has introduced a new waveform audio player and metadata inspection tool called PlayerSpecz. They say:
This player aims to be the go-to solution to quickly play and evaluate audio.
This tool was developed from long experience of working in professional post productions, where quickly finding information an a vast amount of audio files is key.
PlayerSpecz focusses on wave files, but will open many other audio file types as well.
Player features:
- Playback any amount of channels and any sample rate.
- Mix to different channel formats.
- Solo or mute any channel.
- Speed up or down in chromatic steps.
- Live metering of input or output.
Metadata displayed includes:
- Broadcast Wave Extension (BWAV).
- IXML Field Recorder (film set metadata).
- Dolby Atmos (ADM).
- Instrument (sampler, key, loop, etc...).
- ID3, Info and other music related information.
- CART (radio metadata).
- Many other metadata formats (ACID, SNMD, NMIX. etc.).
Additional Visualisers in the Pro version:
- Zoomable spectrogram to give you spectral information.
- Real-time spectral analyzer.
- Zoomable loudness history (EBU R128 & ITU-R BS.1770 compliant).
- Loudness distribution.
And export of the metadata as XML.
Price: 89 Euro on the Lobith Audio website. The activation can be done online or offline from a different computer.
Pricing and Availability
You can download PlayerSpecz for free on lobith-audio.com. This download includes the free as well as the Pro version, which can be tested for 14 days free of charge and no account needed. The demo requires an online connection.
