ecalength(1)
NAME
ecalength - prints audio file lenght and other information
SYNOPSIS
ecalength [-ahtsfmbcr] FILE1 [FILE2] [FILEn]
DESCRIPTION
This is ecalength, a few lines of code pompously named so because they
let one retrieve the length of an audio file from the command line
using ecasound's engine.
- Limitations:
- - With files without header information (raw files), ecalength will only work correctly if the audio file is at a sampling rate of 44100 hz. (Addressed with the -a switch.)
- - It is not foolproof, feeding it with something other than an audio file WILL result in ugly things being spewed back. (A bit better)
- - A thousand more that I haven't thought of.
OPTIONS
-h Prints this usage message. (help)
- -a[:]bits,channels,rate
- Changes the format assumed by default for headerless data. (adjust)
- -t Prints the summed length of all the files processed. (total)
- (Ignored if with -s)
- -s Enables script mode: One info type per file per line. (script)
- (Defaults to length in secs.)
- -f With -s will return the format string as info, alone it will add
- it to the main display. (format)
- -b If -s and -f are enabled with this the info printed will be the
- sample's bitwidth. (bits)
- -c If -s and -f are enabled with this the info printed will be the
- channel count. (channel count)
- -r If -s and -f are enabled with this the info printed will be the
- sampling rate. (rate)
- -m Will print human computable time as in main display but in batch
- fashion. (minutes) (Only with -s)
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
- S.Massy, <observer |at| colba.net <observer |at| colba.net>>