View Audio Sample Rate, Data Format PCM or ALAW Using ffprobe – Python Tutorial

By | September 8, 2021

In python, we can use scipy.io.wavfile.read() to get the wav audio data format, here is the tutorial:

Python Read WAV Data Format, PCM or ALAW – Python Tutorial

However, you have to create a python script to view. Is there any way to view audio sample rate and data format without any coding. In this tutorial, we will introduce you to use ffprobe.exe to view.

ffprobe.exe

ffprobe.exe is a part of ffmpeg. You can download it here:

https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/

download ffmpeg

Then you can see three .exe files.

ffmpeg exe files

You can find ffprobe.exe here.

How to use ffprobe.exe to view the information of an audio?

We can use command below to view:

ffprobe audio_file_name

For example:

D:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin>ffprobe F:\0629529.wav

Then we will see a result:

View Audio Sample Rate, Data Format PCM or ALAW Using ffprobe - Python Tutorial

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