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Command line switch reference

Note: the command line switches for raw file input have changed since V3.0 to better match other parameters. See below and subsection 2.1.5.

 

switch parameter see section

-br  bitrate 2.1.2

-if  input file name

-of  output file name

-iss  number of bits per sample in input file (only needed for raw file input, 16 is default) 2.1.5

-nc  number of channels in input file (only needed for raw file input, 2 is default) 2.1.5

-sr  sample rate in input file (only needed for raw file input, 44.1 kHz is default) 2.1.5

-le  the input file is little-endian (only needed for raw file input) 2.1.5

-be  the input file is big-endian (only needed for raw file input) 2.1.5

-l3wav  write Microsoft RIFF/WAVE layer-3 file 2.1.6

-sti  take input from pipe (stdin)

-sto  write output into a pipe (stdout)

-qual  quality 2.2.2

-esr  effective sampling rate 2.2.1

-crc  CRC checksum 2.2.2

-dm  downmix stereo file to mono 2.2.2

-v  be verbose

-no-is  do not use  intensity stereo 2.1.3