sox/git/soxformat.7

40 Format types that can SoX can determine by a filename
42 Format types that are optionally built into SoX
45 Format types that can be handled by an
49 useful if you have a file that doesn't work with SoX's default format
51 format.
53 To see if SoX has support for an optional format or device, enter
71 format options; for the other listed types, the sample rate defaults to
83 Headerless audio files on a SPARC computer are likely to be of format
112 Amiga 8SVX musical instrument description format.
117 or the 8SVX musical instrument description format.
124 AIFF-C is a format based on AIFF that was created to allow
129 encoding.  This encoding has also become the defacto format produced by modern
132 require looking at its header to detect the true format.
135 encoding is the only encoding that SoX can handle with this format.
138 This format is referred from ARIB STD-B24, which is specified for
159 Ambisonic B-Format: a specialisation of
162 See http://www.ambisonia.com/Members/mleese/file-format-for-b-format for
167 Adaptive Multi Rate\*mNarrow Band speech codec; a lossy format used in 3rd
178 Adaptive Multi Rate\*mWide Band speech codec; a lossy format used in 3rd
222 format (see below).
232 Audio Visual Research format;
237 Apple's Core Audio File format.
267 A headerless format used to compress speech audio for applications such as voice mail.
268 This format is sometimes used with bit-reversed samples\*mthe
270 format option can be used to set the bit-order.
292 are 1 and \-1.  This file format can be used to
295 a file in this format back into one of the other file
341 format.
345 Whilst this file format can contain A-Law, \(*m-law, GSM, G.722,
355 A lossy format for compressing speech which is used in the
359 multiple times.  This format is used by some voice mail applications.
367 Single channel 16-bit PCM format used by HTK,
382 no associated file format, so SoX's implementation is headerless.
385 Matlab 4.2/5.0 (respectively GNU Octave 2.0/2.1) format (.mat is the same as .mat4).
390 format; contains a list of audio files.
391 SoX can read, but not write this file format.
392 See [1] for details of this format.
404 compression format that achieves good compression rates with little
456 for a similar format.
463 for music and streaming audio.  It is a lossy compression format (similar to
479 for a similar format.
504 Ensoniq PARIS file format (big and little-endian respectively).
509 format; contains a list of audio files.
510 SoX can read, but not write this file format.
511 See [2] for details of this format.
548 Portable Voice Format.
551 Sound Designer 2 format.
558 Sound Description Interchange Format). Used by academic music software
563 raw format.
566 SPHERE (SPeech HEader Resources) is a file format defined by NIST
608 An MS-DOS/Windows format from the early '90s.
613 An MS-DOS/Windows format from the early '90s.
619 raw format.
622 SoX's native uncompressed PCM format, intended for storing (or piping)
634 format with `pipes'.
657 A file format from a Yamaha sampling keyboard which wrote IBM-PC
658 format 3\*d5\(dq floppies.  Handles reading of files which do not have
696 Sonic Foundry's 64-bit RIFF/WAV format.
700 This is the native audio file format of Windows, and widely used for uncompressed audio.
703 in their headers, and so do not need any format options
706 You had better know what you are doing! Output format
707 options will cause a format conversion, and the \fB.wav\fR
760 format can be used to create files with the non-standard header that
773 to this format and back again,
778 This format is deprecated in SoX, but will continue to be used in
788 Fasttracker 2 Extended Instrument format.