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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] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-D|-b|-B|-p|-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 just a single piece of information (perhaps for
19       use in a script or batch-file).
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OPTIONS

22       -V     Set verbosity. See sox(1) for details.
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24       -T     Used with multiple files; changes the behaviour of -s, -d and -D
25              to  display  the  total  across all given files.  Note that when
26              used with -s with files with different sampling rates,  this  is
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29       -t     Show detected file-type.
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31       -r     Show sample-rate.
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33       -c     Show number of channels.
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35       -s     Show number of samples (0 if unavailable).
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37       -d     Show  duration in hours, minutes and seconds (0 if unavailable).
38              Equivalent to number of samples divided by the sample-rate.
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40       -D     Show duration in seconds (0 if unavailable).
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42       -b     Show number of bits per sample (0 if not applicable).
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44       -B     Show the bitrate averaged over the whole  file  (0  if  unavail‐
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47       -p     Show estimated sample precision in bits.
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49       -e     Show the name of the audio encoding.
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BUGS

54       Please report any bugs found in this version of SoX to the mailing list
55       (sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net).
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LICENSE

63       Copyright 2008-2013 by Chris Bagwell and SoX Contributors.
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65       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
66       under  the  terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
67       Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or  (at  your  option)  any
68       later version.
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70       This  program  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but
71       WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied  warranty  of  MER‐
72       CHANTABILITY  or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General
73       Public License for more details.
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AUTHORS

76       Chris Bagwell (cbagwell@users.sourceforge.net).  Other authors and con‐
77       tributors are listed in the ChangeLog file that is distributed with the
78       source code.
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82soxi                           February 1, 2013                        SoXI(1)