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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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SFCONVERT(1)							 Debian GNU/Linux						      SFCONVERT(1)

NAME
sfconvert - convert between various audio formats SYNOPSIS
sfconvert infile outfile [ options ... ] [ output keywords ... ] DESCRIPTION
The sfconvert tool can be used to convert audio files from one audio format to another. The files' audio formats have to be supported by libaudiofile. OPTIONS
The following keywords specify the format of the output sound file: byteorder e Desired endianness of output sample data. e may be one of big or little. channels n Number of output channels. n is 1 for mono, and 2 for stereo files. format f Audio format of output file. f has to be one of the currently supported formats: aiff (Audio Interchange File Format), aifc (AIFF-C File Format), next (NeXT/Sun Format), wave (MS RIFF WAVE Format), bicsf (Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound File Format), avr (Audio Visual Research File Format), iff (Amiga IFF/8SVX Sound File Format), or nist (NIST SPHERE File Format). integer n s Produce integer samples. n specifies the width of individual samples in bits, s yields the encoding and may be one of 2scomp (2's complement signed data), or unsigned (unsigned data). The integer and float options (see below) are mutually exclusive. float m Produce floating point samples with a maximum amplitude of m (usually 1.0). This options may not be used together with option inte- ger. SEE ALSO
sfinfo(1). AUTHOR
sfconvert 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). It is based on the sfconvert plain text documentation as distributed with audiofile. Debian Project March 2001 SFCONVERT(1)
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