1SoXI(1) Sound eXchange SoXI(1)
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6 SoXI - Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata
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9 soxi [-V[level]] [-T] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-D|-b|-B|-p|-e|-a] infile1 ...
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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
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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
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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).
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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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49 -e Show the name of the audio encoding.
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51 -a Show file comments (annotations) if available.
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54 Please report any bugs found in this version of SoX to the mailing list
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58 sox(1), soxformat(7), libsox(3)
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60 The SoX web site at http://sox.sourceforge.net
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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
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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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76 Chris Bagwell (cbagwell@users.sourceforge.net). Other authors and con‐
77 tributors are listed in the ChangeLog file that is distributed with the
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