SOXI_NG(1)

💖 soxi_ng 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SOXI_NG(1) manual page from Sound eXchange_ng — it’s literally called Sound eXchange Information, and its whole main-character job is displaying sound file metadata. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

soxi_ng — Sound eXchange Information, display sound file metadata. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

soxi_ng [-V[level]] [-T] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-D|-b|-B|-p|-e|-a] infile1 ...

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

So soxi_ng displays information from the header of a given audio file, or a whole bunch of files. Supported audio file types are listed and described in soxformat_ng(7) — but heads up, bestie: soxi_ng is intended for use only with audio files that have a self-describing header. 💅

By default, it shows as much information as is available. If you want just one tiny piece of info, you can give an option to select it — maybe for use in a script or batch file. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -V — Set verbosity. See sox_ng(1) for details.
• -T — Used with multiple files; changes the behavior of -s, -d and -D so they display the total across all given files. Note that when used with -s with files with different sampling rates, this is of questionable value. 🙈
• -t — Show detected file type.
• -r — Show sample-rate.
• -c — Show number of channels.
• -s — Show number of samples (0 if unavailable).
• -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).
• -b — Show number of bits per sample (0 if not applicable).
• -B — Show the average bitrate of the audio data (0 if unavailable). For Ogg and Opus files, it will be slightly higher than reality as the size of the file header is not easily discovered.
• -p — Show estimated sample precision in bits.
• -e — Show the name of the audio encoding.
• -a — Show file comments (annotations) if available.

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report any bugs found in this version of SoX to the mailing list (sox-ng@groups.io). 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• sox_ng(1)
• soxformat_ng(7)
• libsox_ng(3)

The SoX web site at https://codeberg.org/sox_ng. 🌈

👑 LICENSE 👑

Copyright 2008-2013 by Chris Bagwell and SoX and SoX Contributors.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

🦋 AUTHORS 🦋

Chris Bagwell (cbagwell@users.sourceforge.net). Other authors and contributors are listed in the ChangeLog file that is distributed with the source code. 💜

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