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spectralaudit-0.1.0/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+## [0.1.0] - 2026-10-13
+
+Initial implementation of offline spectral diagnostics: WAV/FLAC ingestion,
+Welch PSD and Nyquist-aware frequency bands, candidate cutoff heuristic,
+periodic spectral peak heuristic, temporal summaries, conventional confounder
+flags, premaster/master comparison, JSON/HTML export, CLI, tests, and packaging.
+
+No validated AI-origin classification is offered.
+
+Initial public release: clarified README and research citation, fixed missing-directory batch input handling, and added release tag/version checks and tests to the publishing workflow.

spectralaudit-0.1.0/CITATION.cff

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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: >-
+  If you use SpectralAudit in scientific research, academic publications,
+  datasets, benchmarks, or technical reports, please cite Eduardo J. Barrios
+  using the citation provided by this file and identify the software version.
+type: software
+title: 'SpectralAudit: Explainable Spectral Forensics for Music and Mastered Audio'
+authors:
+  - family-names: Barrios
+    given-names: Eduardo J.
+version: 0.1.0
+license: Apache-2.0
+repository-code: https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit
+url: https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit
+keywords:
+  - music information retrieval
+  - digital signal processing
+  - audio forensics
+  - synthetic music artifacts
+  - mastering
+abstract: >-
+  Open-source Python software for offline, reproducible spectral measurements,
+  heuristic periodicity analysis, and comparative audio mastering diagnostics.

spectralaudit-0.1.0/CITING.md

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+# Cite SpectralAudit in research
+
+If this software is used in a paper, dissertation, benchmark, or other scholarly
+output, **please cite the software and credit its author, Eduardo J. Barrios**.
+GitHub displays a **Cite this repository** control from the root `CITATION.cff`.
+
+Suggested reference (adapt year and version to the *actually used release*):
+
+> Barrios, E. J. (2026). *SpectralAudit: Explainable Spectral Forensics for Music and
+> Mastered Audio* (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software].
+> https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit
+
+Suggested BibTeX:
+
+```bibtex
+@software{barrios_spectralaudit_2026,
+  author = {Barrios, Eduardo J.},
+  title = {SpectralAudit: Explainable Spectral Forensics for Music and Mastered Audio},
+  year = {2026},
+  version = {0.1.0},
+  url = {https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit}
+}
+```
+
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+
+A citable archived DOI can be added after the first release via Zenodo's GitHub
+integration, if the author chooses to enable it. Do not invent a DOI.

spectralaudit-0.1.0/CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+Contributions are welcome. Open an issue before substantial design changes.
+Install `python -m pip install -e '.[dev]'`, then run `pytest -q` and `ruff check .`.
+
+Add numerical tests for each DSP change and provide references for new methods.
+Do not copy code from projects with incompatible/non-commercial licenses.
+Include SPDX-consistent copyright/attribution notices when appropriate.
+All submitted changes are offered under the repository's Apache-2.0 license.

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+include LICENSE NOTICE CITATION.cff CITING.md REFERENCES.md CHANGELOG.md CONTRIBUTING.md
+recursive-include docs *.md
+recursive-include examples *.py

spectralaudit-0.1.0/NOTICE

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+SpectralAudit
+Copyright 2026 Eduardo J. Barrios
+https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit
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spectralaudit-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: spectralaudit
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Explainable, offline DSP for spectral audio forensics and mastering comparisons
+Author: Eduardo J. Barrios
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit
+Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit/issues
+Keywords: audio,music,spectral-analysis,forensics,dsp,mastering
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
+Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
+Requires-Python: >=3.11
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+License-File: NOTICE
+Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.26
+Requires-Dist: scipy>=1.11
+Requires-Dist: soundfile>=0.12
+Provides-Extra: plot
+Requires-Dist: matplotlib>=3.8; extra == "plot"
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=8; extra == "dev"
+Requires-Dist: ruff>=0.6; extra == "dev"
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+Requires-Dist: twine>=5; extra == "dev"
+Requires-Dist: cffconvert>=2.0; extra == "dev"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# SpectralAudit
+
+**Offline spectral analysis for music and final masters.** A Python library by **Eduardo J. Barrios**.
+
+[![CI](https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![License: Apache-2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)](LICENSE)
+
+SpectralAudit measures **high-frequency energy, spectral cutoffs and regularly spaced spectral peaks** in WAV/FLAC audio. It also compares a premaster and final master to reveal measurable differences between versions. Processing runs **locally** with NumPy and SciPy: no LLMs, AI models or external APIs.
+
+**Important:** SpectralAudit is **not a validated detector of AI-generated music**. Frequencies above 17 kHz, low-pass cutoffs and periodic peaks do **not** prove AI origin. Results are measurements with stated limitations.
+
+## Install
+
+Requires Python 3.11+.
+
+```bash
+pip install spectralaudit
+```
+
+Before the first PyPI release, install from the repository:
+
+```bash
+pip install git+https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit.git
+```
+
+## Quick start
+
+Analyze a master and export an HTML and JSON report:
+
+```bash
+spectralaudit analyze final_master.wav --html report.html --json report.json
+```
+
+Inspect frequency bands, compare two versions, or analyze a folder:
+
+```bash
+spectralaudit spectrum final_master.wav
+spectralaudit compare premaster.wav final_master.wav --html comparison.html
+spectralaudit batch ./music --json batch.json
+```
+
+Python API:
+
+```python
+from spectralaudit import analyze, compare_masters
+
+report = analyze("final_master.wav")
+print(report.findings["high_frequency"]["candidate_cutoff"])
+print(report.findings["spectral_comb"]["candidate_periodicity"])
+print(report.interpretation)  # Origin inconclusive: ...
+report.to_html("report.html")
+
+comparison = compare_masters("premaster.wav", "final_master.wav")
+print(comparison.spectral_changes)
+```
+
+## What it measures
+
+- **Frequency bands:** Welch power spectrum, relative band energy and candidate high-frequency cutoff, respecting the file's Nyquist limit.
+- **Periodic peaks:** spacing of narrow spectral peaks; also possible in conventional harmonic music.
+- **Time:** persistence of candidate patterns in successive audio windows.
+- **Alternative explanations:** flags for sample-rate and processing-related ambiguities.
+- **Master comparison:** estimated time offset, gain and band-level spectral differences.
+
+The same inputs and settings produce deterministic analyses. Detection thresholds are **exploratory heuristics**, not calibrated AI-origin probabilities. Large files are read into memory; input audio is never modified. See [Methods](docs/algorithms.md) and [Limitations](docs/limitations.md).
+
+## Research, citation and license
+
+If you use SpectralAudit in research, **please cite Eduardo J. Barrios and the version used**. See [CITATION.cff](CITATION.cff) and [how to cite](CITING.md).
+
+Selected scientific references:
+
+- Afchar et al. (2025), *A Fourier Explanation of AI-music Artifacts* ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19108)).
+- Cros Vila et al. (2025), *The AI Music Arms Race* ([DOI](https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.254)).
+- Welch (1967), *The Use of Fast Fourier Transform for the Estimation of Power Spectra* ([DOI](https://doi.org/10.1109/TAU.1967.1161901)).
+
+Full bibliography and implementation distinctions: [REFERENCES.md](REFERENCES.md).
+
+**Copyright © 2026 Eduardo J. Barrios.** Open source under the [Apache License 2.0](LICENSE); see [NOTICE](NOTICE). Redistribution must preserve applicable notices. Academic citation is requested, not an additional legal condition of the license.

spectralaudit-0.1.0/README.md

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+# SpectralAudit
+
+**Offline spectral analysis for music and final masters.** A Python library by **Eduardo J. Barrios**.
+
+[![CI](https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![License: Apache-2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)](LICENSE)
+
+SpectralAudit measures **high-frequency energy, spectral cutoffs and regularly spaced spectral peaks** in WAV/FLAC audio. It also compares a premaster and final master to reveal measurable differences between versions. Processing runs **locally** with NumPy and SciPy: no LLMs, AI models or external APIs.
+
+**Important:** SpectralAudit is **not a validated detector of AI-generated music**. Frequencies above 17 kHz, low-pass cutoffs and periodic peaks do **not** prove AI origin. Results are measurements with stated limitations.
+
+## Install
+
+Requires Python 3.11+.
+
+```bash
+pip install spectralaudit
+```
+
+Before the first PyPI release, install from the repository:
+
+```bash
+pip install git+https://github.com/edujbarrios/spectralaudit.git
+```
+
+## Quick start
+
+Analyze a master and export an HTML and JSON report:
+
+```bash
+spectralaudit analyze final_master.wav --html report.html --json report.json
+```
+
+Inspect frequency bands, compare two versions, or analyze a folder:
+
+```bash
+spectralaudit spectrum final_master.wav
+spectralaudit compare premaster.wav final_master.wav --html comparison.html
+spectralaudit batch ./music --json batch.json
+```
+
+Python API:
+
+```python
+from spectralaudit import analyze, compare_masters
+
+report = analyze("final_master.wav")
+print(report.findings["high_frequency"]["candidate_cutoff"])
+print(report.findings["spectral_comb"]["candidate_periodicity"])
+print(report.interpretation)  # Origin inconclusive: ...
+report.to_html("report.html")
+
+comparison = compare_masters("premaster.wav", "final_master.wav")
+print(comparison.spectral_changes)
+```
+
+## What it measures
+
+- **Frequency bands:** Welch power spectrum, relative band energy and candidate high-frequency cutoff, respecting the file's Nyquist limit.
+- **Periodic peaks:** spacing of narrow spectral peaks; also possible in conventional harmonic music.
+- **Time:** persistence of candidate patterns in successive audio windows.
+- **Alternative explanations:** flags for sample-rate and processing-related ambiguities.
+- **Master comparison:** estimated time offset, gain and band-level spectral differences.
+
+The same inputs and settings produce deterministic analyses. Detection thresholds are **exploratory heuristics**, not calibrated AI-origin probabilities. Large files are read into memory; input audio is never modified. See [Methods](docs/algorithms.md) and [Limitations](docs/limitations.md).
+
+## Research, citation and license
+
+If you use SpectralAudit in research, **please cite Eduardo J. Barrios and the version used**. See [CITATION.cff](CITATION.cff) and [how to cite](CITING.md).
+
+Selected scientific references:
+
+- Afchar et al. (2025), *A Fourier Explanation of AI-music Artifacts* ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19108)).
+- Cros Vila et al. (2025), *The AI Music Arms Race* ([DOI](https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.254)).
+- Welch (1967), *The Use of Fast Fourier Transform for the Estimation of Power Spectra* ([DOI](https://doi.org/10.1109/TAU.1967.1161901)).
+
+Full bibliography and implementation distinctions: [REFERENCES.md](REFERENCES.md).
+
+**Copyright © 2026 Eduardo J. Barrios.** Open source under the [Apache License 2.0](LICENSE); see [NOTICE](NOTICE). Redistribution must preserve applicable notices. Academic citation is requested, not an additional legal condition of the license.

spectralaudit-0.1.0/REFERENCES.md

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+# Scientific references and implementation boundaries
+
+The algorithms in SpectralAudit are original Python implementations of conventional
+DSP ideas. A detected artifact is not proof of AI generation. No code or weights
+are taken from the Deezer research implementation.
+
+1. Afchar, D., Meseguer-Brocal, G., Akesbi, K., & Hennequin, R. (2025).
+   **A Fourier Explanation of AI-music Artifacts**. Proceedings of the 26th
+   International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 739–746.
+   https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17811475 . Motivates investigating periodic
+   spectral structure, but the present heuristic is not their published detector.
+2. Cros Vila, L., Sturm, B. L. T., Casini, L., & Dalmazzo, D. (2025).
+   **The AI Music Arms Race: On the Detection of AI-Generated Music**.
+   *Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval*, 8(1).
+   https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.254 . Motivates explicit confounders and
+   robustness warnings.
+3. Welch, P. D. (1967). **The Use of Fast Fourier Transform for the Estimation
+   of Power Spectra: A Method Based on Time Averaging Over Short, Modified
+   Periodograms**. *IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics*, 15(2),
+   70–73. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAU.1967.1161901 . Basis of Welch PSD.
+4. Harris, F. J. (1978). **On the use of windows for harmonic analysis with the
+   discrete Fourier transform**. *Proceedings of the IEEE*, 66(1), 51–83.
+   https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1978.10837 . Basis for Hann windowing.
+
+## Licensing / research provenance
+
+Deezer's publication-related repository is CC BY-NC 4.0 and reports patent
+applications: https://github.com/deezer/ismir25-ai-music-detector . We have
+not copied its implementation. Independent implementation does not automatically
+resolve patent concerns; obtain professional review before relying on this
+software commercially for provenance detection.
+
+The peak detection and cutoff estimation included here are exploratory
+measurements without empirical provenance calibration. They must not be reported
+as reproducing the published detection rates.

spectralaudit-0.1.0/docs/algorithms.md

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+# Numerical algorithms (v0.1.0)
+
+These are reproducible **measurements**, not AI-origin classifications.
+
+## Welch PSD and band energy
+
+For real-valued waveform samples, Welch PSD uses Hann-windowed modified
+periodograms averaged over overlapping windows (`scipy.signal.welch`). PSD
+units are amplitude-squared per Hz. Band energy is approximated by trapezoid
+integration, and relative band power is normalized by the full-band integral.
+
+A band is **unavailable** when its upper boundary exceeds the Nyquist
+frequency; unavailable is not a zero-valued observation. If there is no signal
+power, relative band fractions are `null`.
+
+## Spectral cutoff heuristic
+
+We divide the log-PSD above 3 kHz into 150 Hz bins, take the median of each bin,
+apply a 5-bin median filter, and compute the frequency derivative in dB/kHz.
+The steepest negative derivative is a *candidate* knee only when it is below
+-35 dB/kHz, an **uncalibrated heuristic**. Test frequencies, averaging, bins,
+and signal content strongly affect this value. It is not a codec or origin detector.
+
+## Periodic peak heuristic
+
+We estimate the spectral envelope by Gaussian smoothing the log-PSD (smoothing
+scale ~180 Hz). Narrow peaks in the residual are found using prominence and
+frequency-separation thresholds. For consecutive peak spacings `d_i`, the
+reported central spacing is `median(d_i)` and irregularity is
+`median(|d_i - median(d_i)|) / median(d_i)`.
+
+`candidate_periodicity=True` requires at least five peaks and an irregularity
+below 0.20. This flag is **not** a published synthetic-music detection method:
+ordinary harmonic music, oscillators, and other tonal signals can produce a
+similar effect. Peak spacing may be poorly estimated when intermediate peaks
+are absent. Treat it as an exploratory diagnostic only.
+
+## Temporal summary
+
+Nonoverlapping 5-second windows (up to 48 uniformly spaced representatives)
+measure candidate cutoff and peak-spacing flags. Persistence is the fraction
+of analyzed windows flagged, not evidence of AI provenance.
+
+## Mastering comparison
+
+A mono short excerpt is decimated and cross-correlated to estimate a sample
+offset between source and processed audio. Longer signals are then trimmed to
+their overlapping region. Gain is estimated as `dot(x,y)/dot(x,x)`; residual
+RMS is measured after removing that linear gain. Welch PSD band ratios describe
+spectral changes. Large edits, pitch shifts, compression and stereo changes
+may defeat linear alignment, so results must be independently verified.
+
+## References
+
+See [REFERENCES.md](../REFERENCES.md) for sources, attribution and the Deezer
+code licensing notice. All DSP implementations are independent; the project
+makes no claim to reproduce a published classifier or its accuracy.

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+# Installation
+
+Requirements: Python 3.11+, NumPy, SciPy, and SoundFile. No LLM or GPU needed.
+
+```bash
+python -m venv .venv
+source .venv/bin/activate
+python -m pip install -U pip
+python -m pip install -e '.[dev]'
+python -m pytest -q
+spectralaudit --help
+```
+
+Windows PowerShell activation: `.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1`.
+
+After a confirmed PyPI publication, use `python -m pip install spectralaudit`.
+Audio support relies on the libsndfile build supplied by your SoundFile
+installation; WAV/FLAC availability may vary by platform.

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+# Scope, interpretation and limitations
+
+**No binary detection or model-based AI attribution is implemented.** The
+program is an offline DSP measurement tool. Use `report.interpretation` rather
+than inferring AI-origin probabilities from heuristic findings.
+
+- A spectral cutoff at 17 kHz has many non-generative explanations.
+- Repeated peaks can originate from harmonically rich instruments or synthesis.
+- In a 32 kHz file, frequencies above 16 kHz cannot be observed.
+- Prior codecs, resampling, filtering, and mastering can obscure provenance.
+- The original encoding chain cannot be recovered from one processed WAV.
+- The current implementation loads entire files into memory, which may be
+  expensive for long songs or high sample rates.
+- Peak spacing and cutoff heuristics lack real-dataset sensitivity and
+  specificity evaluation; v0.1 makes no accuracy claims.
+- Master comparison assumes sufficiently similar waveforms, gain and time
+  alignment; remixes, extensive time-stretching and nonlinear editing can fail.
+- HTML reports include a lightweight PSD figure when the source audio remains
+  available; they do not show a full STFT spectrogram or interactive plots.
+
+If decisions affect artists' livelihoods, intellectual property disputes or
+platform enforcement, **do not use SpectralAudit alone** as evidence of provenance.

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+# MasteringDiff: comparing premaster and master
+
+`compare_masters(original, master)` measures sample offset, linear gain,
+residual RMS and frequency-band changes after alignment. It does not infer
+which plugin or process caused a change. See `docs/algorithms.md`.
+
+For a multi-stage sequence, supply an insertion-ordered `dict` to
+`audit_pipeline`, which compares consecutive versions.
+
+Significant pitch shifts, time stretching, different arrangements,
+nonlinear compression and sample rate conversion can confound the alignment.
+Always inspect the signal pair independently if alignment quality is poor.