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AFCONVERT(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					      AFCONVERT(1)

NAME
afconvert -- Audio File Convert SYNOPSIS
afconvert [option] src_audiofile dest_audiofile DESCRIPTION
Audio File Convert will convert a source audio file to a new audio file with the specified file and data types OPTIONS
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SFCONVERT(1)															      SFCONVERT(1)

NAME
sfconvert - convert audio files SYNOPSIS
sfconvert infile outfile [output options] DESCRIPTION
The sfconvert command converts an audio file to another file format or data format. OPTIONS
The following keywords specify the format of the output sound file: format f Output file format. f must be one of the following: aiff Audio Interchange File Format aifc AIFF-C next NeXT/Sun .snd/.au Format wave MS RIFF WAVE bicsf Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound File Format smp Sample Vision Format voc Creative Voice File Format nist NIST SPHERE Format caf Core Audio Format flac FLAC compression c ulaw G.711 mu-law alaw G.711 A-law ima IMA ADPCM msadpcm Microsoft ADPCM flac FLAC alac Apple Lossless Audio Codec byteorder e Output byte order. e may be either big or little. channels n Number of output channels. n is 1 for mono, and 2 for stereo. integer n s Convert to integer audio data. n indicates the output sample width in bits. s specifies the sample format and may be either 2scomp for 2's complement signed data or unsigned for unsigned data. float m Convert to floating-point audio data with a maximum amplitude of m (usually 1.0). The integer and float options are mutually exclusive. The following options take no additional arguments: --help, -h Print help message. --version, -v Print version information. SEE ALSO
sfinfo(1) AUTHOR
Michael Pruett <michael@68k.org> Audio File Library 0.3.6 03/06/2013 SFCONVERT(1)
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