[linux-audio-user] Audio file verification

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:57:43 +0100
mchristoph.eckert at t-online.de (Christoph Eckert) wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> does anyone know a program which can verify the integrity of 
> audio - especially wav - files?
> 
> I have a recorded file and I was told that the file contained 
> 8148 Bytes of trash data at the end.
> 
> Somehow I'd like to check if this is true, and if so, I'd like 
> to do some checks to know what's the reason for the damaged 
> file.

The "sndfile-info" program which is part of libsndfile should
do this. On some distributions it gets put in a separate 
package (ie sndfile-programs on Debian).

Erik
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