Re: Determining the length (in an audio sense) of an MP3
| From: | atppp | Date: | Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:18:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Determining the length (in an audio sense) of an MP3 | ||
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this would be hard if you are working with VBR mp3 files, in which case you
have to scan the whole file, or you may scan the first few frames to get a
reasonable estimation.
For CBR mp3 files, I think Warren's reply is correct.
"Paul Reinheimer" <preinheimer@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6ec19ec70410071603214f31d9@mail.gmail.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to determine the length (in terms of seconds) of an MP3
> file. I have seen the ID3 pear project, but I didn't see anything
> there to tell me how long the song was. There is a fileinfo pecl
> project, but it doesn't mention MP3s and I couldn't find any good
> documentation for it (looking at the pecl site).
>
> Does anyone know of an decent way to determine the length of a song?
> What about other formats (oog, wav, etc?).
>
>
> thanks
> paul