Audioextract

Extract audio files that are embedded within other files.

Setup

mkdir build-posix
make
make install PREFIX=/usr

Cross compile for Windows:

mkdir build-win32
make TARGET=win32

Or:

mkdir build-win64
make TARGET=win64

NOTE: 32bit binaries can only process 2 GB of a file at once. The rest of bigger files will be ignored. You need to run this program several times with different --offset values to process such a file whole.

This also means that using a 32bit binary extracted files can never be larger than 2 GB.

This is because audioextract uses mmap to read files, wich maps files to memory. On 32bit the address space of the main memory is simply not big enough. 64bit binaries can read up to 8 EB (8 Exabytes) at once.

Usage

audioextract [option...] <filename> [<filename> ...]

Examples

Extract .wav, .aif and .ogg (might actually be .flac, .opus or .ogm) files from the file data.bin and store them in the ~/Music directory.

audioextract -f wave,ogg -o ~/Music data.bin

This will then write files like such into ~/Music:

data.bin_00000000.ogg
data.bin_00FFB2E3.wav
data.bin_01F3CD45.aif

The hexadecimal number in the written file names give the offset where in the data file the audio file was found.

Extract .mp3, .mp2 and .mp1 files (with or without ID3v2 tags). The mpg123 option yields a lot of false positives because there is no nice way to unambigiously detect MPEG files. These false positives are however usually very small, so using the --min-size one can hopefully extract only real MPEG files.

audioextract -f id3v2,mpg123 --min-size 100k -o ~/Music data.bin

Options

-h, --help             Print this help message.
-q, --quiet            Do not print status messages.
-o, --output=DIR       Directory where extracted files should be written. (default: ".")
-i, --offset=OFFSET    Start processing at byte OFFSET. (default: 0)
-n, --length=LENGTH    Only process LENGTH bytes.
                       (default and maximum: 8E)
-m, --min-size=SIZE    Minumum size of extracted files (skip smaller). (default: 0)
-x, --max-size=SIZE    Maximum size of extracted files (skip larger).
                       (default and maximum: 16E)

                       The last character of OFFSET, LENGTH and SIZE may be one of the
                       following:
                         B (or none)  for Bytes
                         k            for Kilobytes (units of 1024 Bytes)
                         M            for Megabytes (units of 1024 Kilobytes)
                         G            for Gigabytes (units of 1024 Megabytes)
                         T            for Terabytes (units of 1024 Gigabytes)
                         P            for Petabytes (units of 1024 Terabytes)
                         E            for Exabyte   (units of 1024 Petabytes)

                       The special value "max" selects the maximum alowed value.

-f, --formats=FORMATS  Comma separated list of formats (file magics) to extract.

                       Supported formats:
                         all      all supported formats
                         default  the default set of formats (AIFF, ASF, BINK, ID3v2, IT,
                                  MIDI, MP4, Ogg, RIFF, S3M, XM)
                         aiff     big-endian (Apple) wave files
                         asf      Advanced Systems Format files (also WMA and WMV)
                         bink     BINK files
                         id3v2    MPEG layer 1/2/3 files with ID3v2 tags
                         it       ImpulseTracker files
                         midi     MIDI files
                         mod      Noisetracker/Soundtracker/Protracker Module files
                         mpg123   MPEG layer 1/2/3 files (MP1, MP2, MP3)
                         mp4      MP4 files (M4A, M4V, 3GPP etc.)
                         ogg      Ogg files (Vorbis, Opus, Theora, etc.)
                         riff     Resource Interchange File Format files (ANI, AVI, MMM,
                                  PAL, RDI, RMI, WAV)
                         s3m      ScreamTracker III files
                         xm       Extended Module files
                         tracker  all tracker files (MOD, S3M, IT, XM)

                       WARNING: Because MP1/2/3 files do not have a nice file magic, using
                       the 'mpg123' format may cause *a lot* of false positives. Nowadays
                       MP3 files usually have an ID3v2 tag at the start, so using the
                       'id3v2' format is the better option anyway.

                       The detection accuracy of MOD files is not much better and thus
                       they are also per default disabled.

                       NOTE: When using only the 'mpg123' format but not 'id3v2' any ID3v2
                       tag will be stripped. ID3v1 tags will still be kept.

                       If '-' is written before a format name the format will be
                       removed from the set of formats to extract. E.g. extract
                       everything except tracker files:

                         audioextract --formats=all,-tracker data.bin