We all know the pain. You find a "FLAC" of that obscure 90s album, download 500MB, run spek , and see a hard cut at 16kHz. It's a 128kbps MP3 in a fancy container.
I got tired of manual checks and broken Soulseek filters, so I built a small tool/script/site (delete as applicable). flacmusicfinder
A before/after screenshot of spek showing a real FLAC vs a fake, or a terminal output showing "Fake: 142 files." Option 3: Blog / Hacker News style (Deep dive) Title: How I stopped hoarding fake FLACs with a simple Python script We all know the pain