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SFCONVERT

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NAME

sfconvert - convert between various audio formats

SYNOPSIS

sfconvert infile outfile [ options ... ] [ output keywords ... ]

DESCRIPTION

The sfconvert tool can be used to convert audio files from one audio format to another. The files’ audio formats have to be supported by libaudiofile .

OPTIONS

The following keywords specify the format of the output sound file:
byteorder e

Desired endianness of output sample data. e may be one of big or little .

channels n

Number of output channels. n is 1 for mono, and 2 for stereo files.

format f

Audio format of output file. f has to be one of the currently supported formats: aiff (Audio Interchange File Format), aifc (AIFF-C File Format), next (NeXT/Sun Format), wave (MS RIFF WAVE Format), bicsf (Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound File Format), avr (Audio Visual Research File Format), iff (Amiga IFF/8SVX Sound File Format), or nist (NIST SPHERE File Format).

integer n s

Produce integer samples. n specifies the width of individual samples in bits, s yields the encoding and may be one of 2scomp (2’s complement signed data), or unsigned (unsigned data). The integer and float options (see below) are mutually exclusive.

float m

Produce floating point samples with a maximum amplitude of m (usually 1.0 ). This options may not be used together with option integer .

SEE ALSO

sfinfo (1).

AUTHOR

sfconvert was written by Michael Pruett <michael@68k.org>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It is based on the sfconvert plain text documentation as distributed with audiofile.