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1SoXI(1)                         Sound eXchange                         SoXI(1)
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NAME

6       SoXI - Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata
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SYNOPSIS

9       soxi [-V[level]] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-b|-e|-a] infile1 ...
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DESCRIPTION

12       Displays  information  from  the header of a given audio file or files.
13       Supported audio file types are listed and  described  in  soxformat(7).
14       Note  however, that soxi is intended for use only with audio files with
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17       By default, as much information as is available is  shown.   An  option
18       may be given to select a single piece of information to show.
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OPTIONS

21       -V     Set verbosity. See sox(1) for details.
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23       -t     Show detected file-type.
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25       -r     Show sample-rate.
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27       -c     Show number of channels.
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29       -s     Show number of samples (0 if unavailable).
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31       -d     Show  duration in hours, minutes and seconds (0 if unavailable).
32              Equivalent to number of samples divided by the sample-rate.
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34       -b     Show number of bits per sample.
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36       -e     Show the name of the audio encoding.
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38       -a     Show file comments (annotations) if available.
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BUGS

41       Please report any bugs found in this version of SoX to the mailing list
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LICENSE

50       Copyright 2008 by Chris Bagwell and SoX Contributors.
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52       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
53       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published  by  the
54       Free  Software  Foundation;  either  version 2, or (at your option) any
55       later version.
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57       This program is distributed in the hope that it  will  be  useful,  but
58       WITHOUT  ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied  warranty  of MER‐
59       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU  General
60       Public License for more details.
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AUTHORS

63       Chris Bagwell (cbagwell@users.sourceforge.net).  Other authors and con‐
64       tributors are listed in the AUTHORS file that is distributed  with  the
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69soxi                           October 28, 2008                        SoXI(1)