soxi(1) - Linux man page

Name

SoXI - Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata

Synopsis

soxi [-V[level]] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-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 a single piece of information to show.

Options

-V
Set verbosity. See sox(1) for details.
-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.
-b
Show number of bits per sample.
-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 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 AUTHORS file that is distributed with the source code.