On Monday 19 December 2005 15:40, Brad Fuller wrote: > thanks greg. It's a bit more informative than sndfile-info, I like that > it also gives sample length (your example doesn't show it, but it did > when I ran it.) > Where'd you get it? Good question. Somebody on the list will know for sure. I think is an old version of sndflie-info that used to come with csound? Maybe? Sndinfo is a little utility I've carried around on my linux boxes since 1997 or so. I think I picked it up at Eastman. It may have even begun life running on one of those amazing ol' NeXT machines... (R.I.P.) > Is there an argument that can extract specific > data? like just the type or just the length? Nope. I've attached an ugly little perl script that will do it. Not pretty, but it gets the job done. > Does it extract information from the header, or calculate the information? Don't know. G www.gregwilder.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: duration.pl Type: application/x-perl Size: 559 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20051219/9a4e43a4/duration.bin