Can you train yourself to read an audio file instead of listening to it?
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As Tony H says above the answer is no. You can get certain info from looking at the file such as overall volume level, whether the file is clipped. When editing individual tracks in a Pro Tools session or other DAW you can recognize hard consonants or strong esss that might need to be tamed by volume, but that's about it.
The short answer is "no". A sound file is just data, and looking at that data, we can see the dynamics of the music and even go further and look at the frequency distribution of the audio file.
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Roy S.
No. The variable sized vertical lines you see when looking at waveform audio file only show amplitude; not pitch, frequencies, or timbre. AT best, you can get a sense of where a break or lower dynamic part is of a song but not what it would actually sound like.06/23/19