SFINFO(1) Debian GNU/Linux SFINFO(1)NAME
sfinfo - display information about audio files
SYNOPSIS
sfinfo file1 file2 ...
DESCRIPTION
Given one or more input audio files, sfinfo displays information about the audio data and the sound file itself, like the file format,
audio encoding, sampling rate, or duration. The file format must be one of those supported by libaudiofile (currently AIFF, AIFF-com-
pressed, SUN/NeXT audio, WAVE, BICSF, AVR, IFF/8SVX, and NIST SPHERE), an error is emitted otherwise.
SEE ALSO sfconvert(1).
AUTHOR
sfinfo was written by Michael Pruett <michael@68k.org>.
This manual page was written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Debian Project March 2001 SFINFO(1)
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SFINFO(1)SFINFO(1)NAME
sfinfo - display information about audio files
SYNOPSIS
sfinfo [options] audio files...
DESCRIPTION
sfinfo prints information about the specified audio files, including file format, sample rate, duration, and audio data format.
By default sfinfo displays information in a longer, multi-line format; specifying the --short or -s option produces a short, single-line
summary.
Any files which are not recognized as valid audio files will be ignored unless the --reporterror or -r option is given. The file formats
currently supported by sfinfo are AIFF, AIFF-C, NeXT/Sun .snd/.au, WAVE, Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound File, AVR, Amiga IFF/8SVX, Sample
Vision, Creative Voice File, NIST SPHERE, and Core Audio Format.
OPTIONS --short, -s
Print short single-line summary of each recognized audio file.
--reporterror, -r
Print an error message if any of the specified files are not recognized as valid audio files.
--help, -h
Print help message.
--version, -v
Print version information.
EXAMPLES
Display summary of an audio file:
% sfinfo drum.aiff
File Name drum.aiff
File Format Audio Interchange File Format (aiff)
Data Format 16-bit integer (2's complement, big endian)
Audio Data 1569972 bytes begins at offset 54 (36 hex)
2 channels, 392493 frames
Sampling Rate 44100.00 Hz
Duration 8.900 seconds
List all recognized audio files in the current directory using the short output format:
% sfinfo -s *
9.60s 44100.00 aiff 1ch 16b -- bass.aiff
8.90s 44100.00 aiff 2ch 16b -- drum.aiff
SEE ALSO sfconvert(1)AUTHOR
Michael Pruett <michael@68k.org>
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