ProvenanceStrong signal
Metadata and provenance
Non-acoustic evidence: file tags, upload history, project files, platform records.
The strongest available evidence about a track's origin is almost never acoustic. Project files with edit history, session stems, dated platform uploads, distributor records and a creator who can explain their own arrangement outweigh any spectral measurement.
Metadata is also trivially removable and forgeable, so its absence proves nothing while its presence proves quite a lot. Any serious verification process should start here and use acoustic analysis as corroboration.
How this tool uses it
Deliberately not used. Analysis runs in your browser on audio content only, and the report never reads or stores file metadata.
What else produces the same reading
- Metadata is stripped by most upload pipelines automatically.
- Tags can be written by anyone with a free tool.