I can't get sndinfo to read any of the files in, no matter how I try the
command line as given in the help file, I get for instance

C:\Csound\SoundIn>csound -U sndinfo test BOSEN mf A0 st
DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time  Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994
Failed to find DB file

I don't have 'sox' . .

this is very frustrating.  would simply changing the aif files to wav files
be a good thing I wonder?

> I can't get sndinfo to read any of the files in, no matter how I try the
> command line as given in the help file, I get for instance
> C:\Csound\SoundIn>csound -U sndinfo test BOSEN mf A0 st
> DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time  Version 1.97
> Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994
> Failed to find DB file
Try running sndinfo from the same directory as the message file 
that came with your distribution.  It might be called csound.txt, or 
perhaps english.txt, perhaps some other language...

    David Ogborn