Detect if audio files were lossy-transcoded and surface encoding relics

Detect if audio files were lossy-transcoded and surface encoding relics targets a $1.2B = 30,000 professional audio businesses (labels, mastering studios, broadcasters, archives, forensic labs) × $40K average annual spend for catalog tools & verification total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 6% YoY — based on professional audio tools and media integrity tooling growth trends (streaming, archival spend and tooling adoption).

Key trends driving demand: Automated distribution and mass ingest pipelines — large catalogs are being ingested automatically, creating a need for automated provenance checks.; Rising importance of provenance and authenticity — labels, platforms and archives increasingly demand verifiable source chains for rights and quality.; Improved ML and signal-processing tooling — modern ML models and open-source libraries make artifact detection more reliable and cheaper to run.; Shift to API-first tooling in media workflows — platforms prefer integrations they can automate, creating demand for an API-driven verification service..