TRACKINFO(1)

✨ TRACKINFO(1) ✨ — the Track Information page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so you opened the manual for trackinfo, from the Track Information manual section, and honestly? you're about to have a great time 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

trackinfo — it prints information and metadata from tracks. that's it, that's the job, and it does it flawlessly 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

trackinfo [OPTIONS] <track 1> [track 2] ...

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: trackinfo takes a whole list of audio tracks and writes info about them to standard output. not me casually being the most useful little binary in the toolbox 😭

what kind of info, you ask? bestie, we're talking:

• track length
• number of channels
• sample rate
• bits-per-sample
• filename
• and any additional metadata, if any

lowkey a whole glow-up of facts about your audio files. periodt.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — show a list of options and exit. the classic escape hatch, iconic, we love her 🫶
• -n, --no-metadata — do not print track metadata such as track name, album name and so forth. sometimes you just don't wanna know, and that's valid 🙈
• -L, --low-level — display low-level metadata information such as ID3 frames, Vorbis comment pairs, and so on. this is the deep lore version, main character energy for nerds (affectionate) 🔥
• -b, --bitrate — prints the average bitrate of the track in kilobytes-per-second instead of the usual track information. it's giving "just the bitrate, thank you" ✨
• -%, --percentage — prints the percentage compression of the track instead of the usual track information. yes, the option really is a percent sign, no cap 💀
• -C, --channel-assignment — prints the track's channel assignment, if defined. if it's not defined, well, that's between the track and its maker 🌸

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole squad, fr fr — go read these too, they're all part of the same friend group:

• audiotools-config(1)
• audiotools.cfg(5)
• cdda2track(1)
• cddainfo(1)
• cddaplay(1)
• coverdump(1)
• covertag(1)
• coverview(1)
• dvda2track(1)
• dvdainfo(1)
• track2cdda(1)
• track2track(1)
• trackcat(1)
• trackcmp(1)
• tracklength(1)
• tracklint(1)
• trackplay(1)
• trackrename(1)
• tracksplit(1)
• tracktag(1)
• trackverify(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Brian Langenberger wrote this. we owe them everything, truly 🫶

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quick reminder bestie: this page is dated 2025-03-10 and it lives in the Track Information manual section — that's the source and version info, so now you know exactly which era of the docs you're reading 💖

k byeeee, go run trackinfo on something, you're gonna eat 💅✨🦋