[linux-audio-dev] Length of a soundfile in a script

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:34:58 -0600
Hans Fugal <hans at fugal.net> wrote:

> I thought sox might be able to do it but I don't see it if it's there. I
> want to know how long (in time) an audio file is. 

On my machine:

    erikd at coltrane > sndfile-info Sound/HelpDesk.wav | grep ^Duration
    Duration    : 00:00:41.616

The sndfile-info program is part of libsndfile. In Debian it gets
installed when you install the sndfile-programs package.

Erik
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