check duration of audio files on the command-line

Question

I need to check the duration of a group of audio files. Is there a simple way to do this on the unix command-line?

> duration *

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Answer 1

If you are interested in finding total duration of wav files in a directory using soxi you can use this:

soxi -D input_dir/*.wav | python -c "import sys;print(sum(float(l) for l in sys.stdin))

change input_dir according to your input directory. If you want to find max/min duration between all wav files feel free to change sum to max or min.