Unknow Audio FIle Type Help

[Colin_S]

Was hoping someone can help. I have a number of audio files which have no extension to them so i'm unsure on the file type i.e. MP3 etc. I know they are audio files, anyway to identify the file type?

Thanks

Colin

[Snowknight26]

Check them with ffmpeg or open them in a hex editor and check the first couple of bytes.

[setarip_old]

@Colin_S

Hi!

Why, pray tell, would you have created these files without identifying extensions?

[kypec]

IIRC some programs (AviMUX-GUI, Avinaptic?) provide the ability to demux streams from container file. Unfortunately, these utilities are not that smart and tend to forget or are not able to append file extension to demuxed data which can lead to files as OP is having problems with.

[tebasuna51]

eac3to can detect some audio file types (mp2,mp3,aac,ac3,dts,flac,mlp,thd,wav,w64,pcm,...) checking the header or the raw data.
Usage:
eac3to audiofile -check

Or drag&drop in UsEac3to