Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm looking for a command line tool that can determine the length > (duration in seconds) of a sound file using more than just the file > header. Try: sox $FILE -n stats 2>&1 | awk '/^Length / {print $2}' That will decode the entire file and run it through the sox "stats" effect. I just tried it on a 28MB FLAC file (3:49.80s) truncated to 5MB with: dd if=$ORIG of=truncated.flac bs=5M count=1 And was able to reproduce soxi showing the the length as 3:49.80 but "sox .. -n stats" showed only 44.304s _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user