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soxi: Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata

NAME

SoXI - Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata

SYNOPSIS

soxi [-V[level]] [-T] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-D|-b|-B|-e|-a] infile1 ...

DESCRIPTION

Displays information from the header of a given audio file or files. Supported audio file types are listed and described in soxformat(7). Note however, that soxi is intended for use only with audio files with a self-describing header.

By default, as much information as is available is shown. An option may be given to select just a single piece of information (perhaps for use in a script or batch-file).

OPTIONS

-V

Set verbosity. See sox(1) for details.

-T

Used with multiple files; changes the behaviour of -s, -d and -D to display the total across all given files. Note that when used with -s with files with different sampling rates, this is of questionable value.

-t

Show detected file-type.

-r

Show sample-rate.

-c

Show number of channels.

-s

Show number of samples (0 if unavailable).

-d

Show duration in hours, minutes and seconds (0 if unavailable). Equivalent to number of samples divided by the sample-rate.

-D

Show duration in seconds (0 if unavailable).

-b

Show number of bits per sample.

-B

Show the bitrate averaged over the whole file (0 if unavailable).

-e

Show the name of the audio encoding.

-a

Show file comments (annotations) if available.

BUGS

Please report any bugs found in this version of SoX to the mailing list (sox-users [at] lists.sourceforge.net).

LICENSE

Copyright 2008-2013 by Chris Bagwell and SoX Contributors.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

AUTHORS

Chris Bagwell (cbagwell [at] users.sourceforge.net). Other authors and contributors are listed in the ChangeLog file that is distributed with the source code.