Short: Print info about 8SVX samples Author: wnoeker@t-online.de (Wilhelm Noeker) Uploader: wnoeker t-online de (Wilhelm Noeker) Type: mus/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos Soundinfo reads IFF 8SVX samples and gives a brief one-line description of length, sampling rate, running time and channel and compression status. Can also examine the amplitude distribution and create a GnuPlot datafile of it. Examples of what it does (think of the following as a CLI session): -------------8<------------start-of-snapshot-------------8<--------------- 0.Work:snd/song> spat soundinfo #? ; list a directory full of samples mono 8SVX, 0:33 at 11025 Hz, size 372858 (C0): Jeopardy.iff mono 8SVX, 0:46 at 14074 Hz, size 647820 (C0): Blossom.iff mono 8SVX, 2:13 at 14700 Hz, size 1955296 (C0): Lorena.iff mono 8SVX, 0:39 at 22448 Hz, size 879544 (C0): Promises.iff stereo 8SVX, 0:00 at 15480 Hz, size 13522 (C1): WhosBad.iff mono 8SVX, 2:33 at 14700 Hz, size 2249296 (C0): ThroughWLove.iff not an IFF file ( 3452 bytes): histogram.plt 0.Work:snd/song> soundinfo -p blossom.iff ; examine one sample closely mono 8SVX, 0:46 at 14074 Hz, size 647820 (C0): blossom.iff read 647820 bytes = 100 % volume ± 8: 179291 samples volume ± 16: 129271 samples volume ± 24: 100558 samples volume ± 32: 75148 samples volume ± 40: 54150 samples volume ± 48: 37855 samples volume ± 56: 26424 samples volume ± 64: 17693 samples volume ± 72: 11808 samples volume ± 80: 6783 samples volume ± 88: 4054 samples volume ± 96: 2329 samples volume ±104: 1284 samples volume ±112: 658 samples volume ±120: 289 samples volume ±128: 225 samples plotfile created: histogram.plt ------------->8-------------end-of-snapshot------------->8---------------