audio-type

What is audio-type?

The 'audio-type' npm package is used to detect the file type of a given audio buffer. It supports various audio formats and provides a simple interface to determine the type of audio data.

What are audio-type's main functionalities?

Detect Audio Type

This feature allows you to detect the type of an audio file by reading its buffer. The code sample demonstrates how to read an audio file into a buffer and then use the 'audio-type' package to determine its type.

const audioType = require('audio-type');
const fs = require('fs');

const buffer = fs.readFileSync('path/to/audio/file');
const type = audioType(buffer);
console.log(type); // e.g., 'mp3', 'wav', etc.

Other packages similar to audio-type

file-type

The 'file-type' package is a more general-purpose library that can detect the file type of various file formats, including audio, video, images, and more. It provides a broader range of file type detection compared to 'audio-type', which is specialized for audio files.

music-metadata

The 'music-metadata' package is used to parse audio files and extract metadata such as format, duration, and tags. While it provides more detailed information about audio files, including metadata, it also includes functionality to detect the file type, making it a more comprehensive tool compared to 'audio-type'.

README

audio-type

Detect the audio type of a Buffer/Uint8Array

Install

$ npm install --save audio-type

$ bower install --save audio-type

$ component install hemanth/audio-type

Usage

Node.js

var readChunk = require('read-chunk'); // npm install read-chunk
var audioType = require('audio-type');
var buffer = readChunk.sync('meow.wav', 0, 12);

audioType(buffer);
//=> wav

Browser

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'meow.flac');
xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';

xhr.onload = function () {
	audioType(new Uint8Array(this.response));
	//=> flac
};

xhr.send();

API

audioType(buffer)

Returns: mp3, oga, flac, wav, m4a, false

buffer

Type: buffer (Node.js), uint8array

It only needs the first 12 bytes.

CLI

$ npm install --global audio-type

$ audio-type --help

Usage
  $ cat <filename> | audio-type
  $ audio-type <filename>

Example
  $ cat meow.mp3 | audio-type
  mp3

License

MIT © Hemanth.HM