On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:03:41 +0200 Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user