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Scrapez
Feb 27, 2004

I'm attempting to determine the codec of an audio file and am having little success. The file was taken off an old voicemail platform and I have no idea what format it was stored in. It could very well be a proprietary format.

I've tried Gspot and it comes up with nothing. Are there other applications like Gspot that can scan an audio file and determine codec and other attributes?

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Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

Have you tried just opening it in an editor that supports binary files (e.g. Textpad, Notepad++) to see if there's any englishy readable header/leadin?

OneEightHundred
Feb 28, 2008

Soon, we will be unstoppable!
I'm pretty sure ffprobe (part of ffmpeg) is designed for exactly this type of thing.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

If you happen to be on a Unix box or have cygwin installed, does 'file foo.audio' or whatever show anything useful?

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