WAVE Utilities is a set of three programs for dealing with WAVE format audio files. Some software is unable to parse complex WAVE files containing such things as playlists and padding. SimplifyWave converts complex files into files that such programs can read by stripping everything other than the data chunk. RepairWave inserts the required data chunk id and size information into ill-formed files in which the audio data directly follows the header. InfoWave extracts information from a RIFF/WAV or RIFX/WAV file and reports on the contents of the file. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:
This release fixes several problems arising inunusual circumstances.
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>
Audio File Library 0.3.6 03/06/2013 SFINFO(1)