WAVanalysator

WAVanalysator is a program that facilitates a user-friendly interface for analyzing Wave audio tracks, in order to find out the channel mode and normalization factor. It works only for PCM 16-bit stereo WAV files with any sample rate, as long as they're smaller than 2GB.

The entire application's packed in just one .exe file that you can drop to a custom location on the HDD or to a USB flash drive, in order to directly run WAVanalysator on any machine with minimum effort and no previous setup.

It doesn't need DLLs or anything else to run, create files on the disk without asking for permission, or change Windows registry settings. In order to remove it, it's only necessary to delete the executable.

Concerning the interface, the utility is clearly outdated. However, its window displays all options to give you an overview and they are easy to set up.

Before opening a Wave track via the file browser, all you can do is modify the default number of samples per point of analysis (maximum 1000).

Once a WAV file is loaded, it starts playing in a built-in player. You can stop the playback with one click, examine the audio representation in a wave spectrum, find out the file's normalization factor and whether it's stereo or mono, as well as perform another analysis. There are no other notable options available here.

The program hasn't been updated for a long time but it worked smoothly on newer Windows versions in our tests, without hanging, crashing or indicating errors. System resources consumption was minimal. On the other hand, WAVanalysator doesn't have more advanced options and configuration settings for examining Wave tracks. However, it's freeware.