How to view audio bitrate in VLC

[Berlinson]

Does anyone know how to view the audio bitrate of any file within VLC? I've trawled through a number of Google results that all seem to claim that you need to download a separate app to do it.

[crackstone]

load the audio file
right click on the file --> Media Information or Window-->Media Information or CMD+I
click the second tab Codec Details
maximize the Stream 0 or whatever you see there
then you should see an entry called Bitrate
that should be what you're looking for

//crackstone

[Frydek]

That's an old post but still unsolved as far as I know.
CMD + I does bring some info about the audio such as sample rate, codec, etc. But there's not info about the bitrate (e.g. 320 kbps, 256kbps...)
Anyone have an idea how to check it?

[crackstone]

But there's not info about the bitrate (e.g. 320 kbps, 256kbps...)

Yes - it does show you info about the audio bitrate.

See the following image (VLC 2.1.4) showing an audio bitrate of 192 kb/s


ffprobe can also provide some insight (see ffmpeg):

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Duration: 01:04:31.96, start: 49416.910189, bitrate: 2245 kb/s Program 1 Stream #0:0[0x44](eng): Audio: mp2 ([3][0][0][0] / 0x0003), 32000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s Stream #0:1[0x45](eng): Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc

[dfuhrmann]

Probably this information is not shown for variable bitrate audio files. In this case, you can only guess from the Statistics tab, as far as I know.