SFCONVERT(1)

💖 sfconvert(1) — convert audio files, bestie 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

sfconvert — convert audio files. This is the manual page for sfconvert(1), and it’s lowkey iconic for anyone who needs an audio-file glow-up. ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sfconvert infile outfile [output options]

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💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

Okay so the sfconvert command converts an audio file to another file format or data format. That’s the vibe. 🎀

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🎀 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 — Compression mode, and the options are:
  • 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 — do not use both at once, periodt. 😭

The following options take no additional arguments:

• --help, -h — Print help message.
• --version, -v — Print version information.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

sfinfo(1) — go check it out, bestie 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Michael Pruett <michael@68k.org>

💖 this cute little page comes from Audio File Library 0.3.6, dated 03/06/2013 — slay and goodbye! 💅✨