sfinfo - display information about audio files

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  EXAMPLES  SEE ALSO  AUTHOR 

NAME

sfinfo − display information about audio files

SYNOPSIS

sfinfo [options] audio files...

DESCRIPTION

sfinfo prints information about the specified audio files, including file format, sample rate, duration, and audio data format.

By default sfinfo displays information in a longer, multi−line format; specifying the −−short or −s option produces a short, single−line summary.

Any files which are not recognized as valid audio files will be ignored unless the −−reporterror or −r option is given. The file formats currently supported by sfinfo are AIFF, AIFF−C, NeXT/Sun .snd/.au, WAVE, Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound File, AVR, Amiga IFF/8SVX, Sample Vision, Creative Voice File, NIST SPHERE, and Core Audio Format.

OPTIONS

−−short, −s

Print short single−line summary of each recognized audio file.

−−reporterror, −r

Print an error message if any of the specified files are not recognized as valid audio files.

−−help, −h

Print help message.

−−version, −v

Print version information.

EXAMPLES

Display summary of an audio file:

% sfinfo drum.aiff
File Name drum.aiff
File Format Audio Interchange File Format (aiff)
Data Format 16−bit integer (2's complement, big endian)
Audio Data 1569972 bytes begins at offset 54 (36 hex)
2 channels, 392493 frames
Sampling Rate 44100.00 Hz
Duration 8.900 seconds

List all recognized audio files in the current directory using the short output format:

% sfinfo −s *
9.60s 44100.00 aiff 1ch 16b −− bass.aiff
8.90s 44100.00 aiff 2ch 16b −− drum.aiff

SEE ALSO

sfconvert(1)

AUTHOR

Michael Pruett <[email protected]>


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