soxi

Displays information from the header of a given audio file or files.

Documentation

• man 1 'soxi' [EN]

Syntax

soxi [PARAMETER ...] [FILE ...]

Parameters

-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).

-t

Show detected file-type.

Examples

Get file length in seconds

soxi -D "${HOME}/tmp/alex.wav"