On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:13:41 +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: >I have about 150 uncompressed audio files that I want to properly >categorise, relatively quickly. > >The very oldest were recorded as 16bit 44.1k, more recent ones were >16bit, 48k and the latest ones 24bit 48k. > >I've moved them all into the same directory, so is there a simple >script I can run that will scan this and list the name and details of >each file? > >I can find plenty of programs that can change the format, but can't >find any that will just tell me what it is :( [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ exiftool /home/music/musicstudio_robo´s_harp/ ======== /home/music/musicstudio_robo´s_harp/robo´s_harp_raw_f#_at.wav ExifTool Version Number : 10.00 File Name : robo´s_harp_raw_f#_at.wav Directory : /home/music/musicstudio_robo´s_harp File Size : 133 kB File Modification Date/Time : 2015:04:20 12:44:37+02:00 File Access Date/Time : 2015:04:20 13:54:01+02:00 File Inode Change Date/Time : 2015:04:20 18:12:11+02:00 File Permissions : rw-r--r-- File Type : WAV File Type Extension : wav MIME Type : audio/x-wav Encoding : Microsoft PCM Num Channels : 1 Sample Rate : 44100 Avg Bytes Per Sec : 88200 Bits Per Sample : 16 Duration : 1.54 s ======== /home/music/musicstudio_robo´s_harp/robo´s_harp_syn_f#.wav ExifTool Version Number : 10.00 File Name : robo´s_harp_syn_f#.wav Directory : /home/music/musicstudio_robo´s_harp File Size : 349 kB File Modification Date/Time : 2015:04:19 20:32:57+02:00 File Access Date/Time : 2015:04:19 21:52:11+02:00 File Inode Change Date/Time : 2015:04:20 06:23:30+02:00 File Permissions : rw-r--r-- File Type : WAV File Type Extension : wav MIME Type : audio/x-wav Encoding : Microsoft PCM Num Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Avg Bytes Per Sec : 176400 Bits Per Sample : 16 Duration : 2.02 s _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user