soxi (1) Linux Manual Page
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,-dand-Dto display the total across all given files. Note that when used with-swith 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).
SEE ALSO
sox(1), soxformat(7), libsox(3)
The SoX web site at http://sox.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.