Display information about a sound file
sndfile-info file
sndfile-info will display basic information about a sound file such as its format, its sample rate, and the number of channels. This information is obtained using libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/).
This manual page was originally written by Joshua Haberman <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Further additions have been made by Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]>.