What is the terminal command that can used to find the bitrate of an mp3 file?
Is there any other option available other than mpg321 -t name.mp3
?
MediaInfo is further solution to do that (not only on mp3).
sudo apt-get install mediainfo
Example:
mediainfo Aphrodite_-_Superman_\(dnb\).mp3 | grep "Bit rate"
Output:
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Another Example:
mediainfo Aphrodite_-_Superman_\(dnb\).mp3 | grep 'Bit rate '
Another Output:
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Get exactly the audio bitrate via mediainfo in bps:
mediainfo --Output='Audio;%BitRate%' '/MY/MEDIA/FILE.MP3'
or in Kbps:
mediainfo --Output='Audio;%BitRate/String%' '/MY/MEDIA/FILE.MP3'
--Output=JSON
to get the output formatted as JSON. This is useful if you're using mediainfo
inside another app.
Simply put:
file song.mp3
Note:
file
is included with Ubuntu.
For alias lovers, insert this at the end of your ~/.bashrc
file:
bitrate () {
echo `basename "$1"`: `file "$1" | sed 's/.*, \(.*\)kbps.*/\1/' | tr -d " " ` kbps
}
Open a new Terminal window. You may now run the following command:
bitrate song.mp3
file
doesn't work with a whole lot of MP3s I have which are properly identified by exiftool
and even better by mediainfo
.
Mar 27, 2016 at 10:10
Install mp3info package
sudo apt-get install mp3info
To find the bitrate use
mp3info -r a -p "%f %r\n" *.mp3
will give the info you need, also has some other useful functions man mp3info
for more info
mp3info
-- a program that does not always extract info from mp3s.
You can install the package libimage-exiftool-perl
:
sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
Then run:
exiftool -AudioBitrate GoldLion.mp3
It will output something like:
Audio Bitrate : 192 kbps
The best info, by-far, is provided by ffprobe
(part of the ffmpeg
package). mpg123 is also nice, but hard to grep output, which is probably why you were asking for something else.
$ mpg123 -t example.mp3 2>&1 | grep -A1 -E "^MPEG"
MPEG 2.5 L III cbr32 11025 mono
$ ffprobe example.mp3 2>&1 | grep Stream
Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 11025 Hz, mono, s16p, 32 kb/s
For pro-use, do this:
# ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams example.mp3
{
"streams": [
{
"index": 0,
"codec_name": "mp3",
"codec_long_name": "MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)",
"codec_type": "audio",
"codec_time_base": "1/11025",
"codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
"codec_tag": "0x0000",
"sample_fmt": "s16p",
"sample_rate": "11025",
"channels": 1,
"channel_layout": "mono",
"bits_per_sample": 0,
"r_frame_rate": "0/0",
"avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
"time_base": "1/14112000",
"start_pts": 0,
"start_time": "0.000000",
"duration_ts": 55294344,
"duration": "3.918250",
"bit_rate": "32000",
"disposition": {
"default": 0,
"dub": 0,
"original": 0,
"comment": 0,
"lyrics": 0,
"karaoke": 0,
"forced": 0,
"hearing_impaired": 0,
"visual_impaired": 0,
"clean_effects": 0,
"attached_pic": 0,
"timed_thumbnails": 0
}
}
],
"format": {
"filename": "example.mp3",
"nb_streams": 1,
"nb_programs": 0,
"format_name": "mp3",
"format_long_name": "MP2/3 (MPEG audio layer 2/3)",
"start_time": "0.000000",
"duration": "3.918250",
"size": "17260",
"bit_rate": "35240",
"probe_score": 51,
"tags": {
"title": "Sound Effects - Female Operatic La 1 - Opera singer sings La.",
"artist": "Download Sound Effects - SoundDogs - AOS",
"album": "http://www.Sounddogs.com",
"track": "0",
"copyright": "(c) 2010 Sounddogs.com, All Rights Reserved",
"genre": "SFX - Humans; Vocalizations",
"comment": "Royalty Free Sound Effects - Sounddogs.com",
"date": "2008"
}
}
}
% ffprobe myfile.mp3 2>&1 |grep Stream Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 320 kb/s
Jul 11, 2022 at 12:38