SoXI(1)                         Sound eXchange                         SoXI(1)



NAME
       SoXI − Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata

SYNOPSIS
       soxi [−−V[level]] [−−T] [−−t|−−r|−−c|−−s|−−d|−−D|−−b|−−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 just a single piece of information (perhaps for
       use in a script or batch‐file).

OPTIONS
       −−V     Set verbosity. See sox(1) for details.

       −−T     Used with multiple files; changes the behaviour of −−s, −−d and −−D
              to  display  the  total  across all given files.  Note that when
              used with −−s with files with different sampling rates,  this  is
              of questionable value.

       −−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.

       −−D     Show duration in seconds (0 if unavailable).

       −−b     Show number of bits per sample.

       −−B     Show the bitrate averaged over the whole  file  (0  if  unavail‐
              able).

       −−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 2008‐9 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  MER‐
       CHANTABILITY  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 con‐
       tributors are listed in the ChangeLog file that is distributed with the
       source code.



soxi                             June 14, 2009                         SoXI(1)