[timidity-talk] Audio File Clipping Detector

[Larry A. P. <ak...@co...>]

Hello,

I use Timidity++ with excellent results to render MIDI files
into wav format and then to either audio CD or mp3.

A major concern is the presence of "clipping" in the wav
file that is produced.  To avoid clipping the rendering
volume of Timidity++ must not be set too large.

To determine whether excessive peaks or clipping are present,
I usually just load the wav file into an editor and simply
visually check the output.  But this can be far too inefficient
and error prone.  Is there any software that can read an audio
file and automatically check for clipping?  Such a program would
be similar to the "histogram" function that exists for digital
images.

Andrew Kalten