SOXI_NG(1)                     Sound eXchange_ng                    SOXI_NG(1)

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
       Displays  information  from  the header of a given audio file or files.
       Supported audio file types are listed and described in soxformat_ng(7).
       Note however, that soxi_ng is intended for use only  with  audio  files
       with a self-describing header.

       By  default,  as  much information as is available is shown.  An option
       may be given to select just a single piece of information (perhaps  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
              to 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  MER-
       CHANTABILITY  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 con-
       tributors are listed in the ChangeLog file that is distributed with the
       source code.

SoX                           September 12, 2024                    SOXI_NG(1)
