soxi - Man Page
Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata
Examples (TL;DR)
- Display the sound file metadata:
soxi path/to/file.wav
Synopsis
soxi [-V[level]] [-T] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-D|-b|-B|-p|-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 (0 if not applicable).
- -B
Show the bitrate averaged over the whole file (0 if unavailable).
- -p
Show estimated sample precision in bits.
- -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).
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@users.sourceforge.net). Other authors and contributors are listed in the ChangeLog file that is distributed with the source code.