SoXI
Section: Sound eXchange (1)
Updated: October 28, 2008
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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.