Find Any Audio Clip Inside Hours-Long Recordings — Without Uploading Anything
Audio Scanner (coming soon from Bolide® Software) answers one question: where exactly does this sound play inside that long recording? Give it a short clip — a jingle, an ad spot, a piece of music, any sound — and one or more long audio files. It returns every occurrence with an exact timestamp, like text search, but for sound.
What it does
- Finds a jingle or ad in a radio broadcast recording — counts plays and lists positions for proof-of-play reports
- Searches for a sound inside an audio file of any length — multi-hour recordings are scanned in minutes
- Detects the clip even when it is quieter, partially cut off, or has a voice-over on top
- Works across formats and bitrates — MP3, WAV, FLAC and more, matched by sound, not by bytes
- Batch mode: one clip against a whole folder of recordings — or many clips in a single pass
🔒 Private by design — nothing leaves your computer
Online audio recognition services make you upload your recordings to someone else's server. That is slow for multi-hour files — and often simply not allowed: pre-release ads, court evidence, unaired programs, confidential interviews.
Audio Scanner processes everything locally, on your own Windows PC. No account, no subscription, no internet connection required for scanning. Your audio never touches the cloud.
Who is it for?
- 📻 Radio stations & advertisers — verify that every paid spot actually aired: get the play count and timestamps from your own air-check recordings
- 🎙️ Podcasters & editors — locate intros, sponsor reads, and repeated segments across episodes for cutting or replacement
- 📞 Call centers & banks — verify that mandatory announcements and disclaimers were actually played in call recordings, without sending the calls outside
- ⚖️ Legal & compliance — find a specific fragment in recorded evidence without sending confidential audio to third parties
- 🗄️ Archivists & researchers — search large audio archives for a known excerpt
- 🎧 Musicians & rights holders — check where your sample, track, or sound appears in long recordings
How it works
- Fingerprint: the clip and the recording are converted into compact acoustic fingerprints — the same class of technology that powers our Audio Comparer.
- Scan: the recording is searched for the clip's fingerprint pattern, hundreds of times faster than real time.
- Report: you get the number of occurrences, each with an exact position and a confidence score. Export the list or jump straight to each hit.
Get early access
Audio Scanner is in active development. Leave your email and we will invite you to the free beta — early testers get a discounted license when it launches.
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Frequently asked questions
How can I find where an audio clip occurs in a long recording?
Audio Scanner uses acoustic fingerprinting: it builds a compact sound signature of your clip and scans the long recording for matching signatures. You get every occurrence with an exact timestamp — even if the clip is quieter, partially cut off, or has a DJ talking over it.
Does it upload my audio to the cloud?
No. Everything runs on your own PC. Your recordings never leave your computer — there is nothing to upload and no server involved.
Can it count how many times a jingle or ad played in a broadcast?
Yes — that is the core use case. Give it the jingle or the ad spot and your air-check recording; it returns the play count and the exact position of every play.
How long can the recordings be?
Multi-hour files are fine. Scanning runs hundreds of times faster than real time, so a full broadcast day takes minutes.
How is this different from Audio Comparer?
Audio Comparer compares whole tracks to find duplicate songs. Audio Scanner searches for a short fragment inside long recordings — a different job, powered by the same offline-first fingerprinting approach.
For Windows 10, 11 | Free beta for subscribers