On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:12:36 +0100, Will J Godfrey wrote: >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. As each entry was >on a single line I bulk replaced the unwanted bits with nothing and >ended up with a list like this: > >The_Long_Years 24 bit, 44100 Hz >The_Man_With_The_Hat 16 bit, 44100 Hz >The_Mystic 16 bit, 44100 Hz >The_Piper 16 bit, 44100 Hz >The_Storm 24 bit, 48000 Hz >... >Who_Cares 16 bit, 44100 Hz >Widow 16 bit, 44100 Hz >Wimpole 16 bit, 48000 Hz >Wires 16 bit, 44100 Hz >Yoshimi_Rides_Home 16 bit, 48000 Hz You don't need to do it manually, you could use command line to format the list. $ printf "%-35s\t\t%s %s\t%s\n" $(file *wav|grep -v link|awk '{print $1" "$9" "$10" "$12}') >~/formated_wav_list.txt $ cat ~/formated_wav_list.txt robo´s_harp-raw_a-1.wav: 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_raw_a_off-key.wav: 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_raw_f#_at.wav: 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp-raw´n´syn_a-1.wav: 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_raw´n´syn_a_off-key.wav: 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_raw´n´syn_f#_at.wav: 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp-syn_a-1.wav: 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_syn_a_off-key.wav: 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_syn_f#_at.wav: 16 bit, 44100 $ sed -i s/":"/" "/g ~/formated_wav_list.txt $ cat ~/formated_wav_list.txt robo´s_harp-raw_a-1.wav 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_raw_a_off-key.wav 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_raw_f#_at.wav 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp-raw´n´syn_a-1.wav 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_raw´n´syn_a_off-key.wav 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_raw´n´syn_f#_at.wav 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp-syn_a-1.wav 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_syn_a_off-key.wav 16 bit, 44100 robo´s_harp_syn_f#_at.wav 16 bit, 44100 Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user