soxi - Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata
soxi [-V[level]] [-T] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-D|-b|-B|-e|-a] infile1 ...
SoXI(1) Sound eXchange SoXI(1)
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(4).
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 unavail-
able).
-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@lists.sourceforge.net).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | audio/sox |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
sox(1), soxformat(4), libsox(3)
The SoX web site at http://sox.sourceforge.net
LICENSE
Copyright 2008-9 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 MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
AUTHORS
Chris Bagwell (cbagwell@users.sourceforge.net). Other authors and con-
tributors are listed in the ChangeLog file that is distributed with the
source code.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://downloads.source-
forge.net/project/sox/sox/14.3.2/sox-14.3.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://sox.sourceforge.net/.
soxi February 19, 2011 SoXI(1)