[LAU] Discovering file format

Bob van der Poel bob at mellowood.ca
Mon Sep 21 16:54:28 UTC 2015


On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk>
wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:03:41 +0200
> Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 19/09/15 23:12, Will J Godfrey wrote:
> > > Once again, thanks everyone
> > >
> > > As it was only uncompressed files I was looking at 'file' turned out
> to be the
> > > simplest and fastest. I simply redirected the output to create a text
> file, then
> > > picked it up with kwrite.
> >
> > I think soxi (part of sox) should also have been mentioned... then you
> > could quickly hack something like this:
> >
> > for f in *.wav
> > do
> >      SR=$(soxi -r "$f")
> >      BITS=$(soxi -b "$f")
> >      printf "%-20s %s bits, %s Hz\n" "$f" "$BITS" "$SR"
> > done
> >
> > Sample output:
> >
> > agogo_h.wav          16 bits, 44100 Hz
> > agogo_lo.wav         16 bits, 44100 Hz
> > bell_tree.wav        16 bits, 44100 Hz
> > ...
>
> While I very much appreciate these suggestion. It was a one-off situation
> which
> required (shamefully) little knowledge to complete. Were I to do something
> like
> this on a regular basis then I would indeed dive into these more refined
> solutions.
>
> --
>

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