Finding clicks

**Johny B Good[_2_]** · September 10th 14, 12:47 PM posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.comp.os.linux

On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:13:21 GMT, (Don Pearce) wrote:

On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:19:44 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Sometimes playing it backwards for detection actually works better than
forwards.
Brian

In the digital world, the idea of playing in any direction has no
meaning - you don't detect steep edges that way, you differentiate and
look at amplitude.

What he said! :-)

It rather depends on the sophistication of the 'declicking' alorithm.
Processing the wav file in reverse may help in the case of a primitive
click filter algorithm but I'd anticipate a properly sophisticated
algorithm possibly becoming confused by a reversed wav file.

However, if you can't find a description of the declicking algotithm
that describes the process in enough detail to determine this possible
'gotcha' with reversed files, it's worth testing before discounting
such a strategy. It's not as if it's a difficult test to make so worth
a shot.
--
J B Good