From: Scott Rubin <slr2777@...>
Date: 2005-02-17T12:14:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading mp3 files

Totally awesome, that's perfect.  Thanks!

Florian Groß wrote:
> Scott Rubin wrote:
> 
>> I've been writing some simple music collection management scripts in 
>> ruby lately, and it seems to be going well.  I found ruby id3 with a 
>> google search, it while not perfect it seems to meet my needs.  
>> However, I can't seem to find any ruby library/class that will help me 
>> get information out of mp3/ogg/etc. files that is not ID3.  For 
>> example I would like to examine any mp3 file and determine its bitrate 
>> and playtime. Is there a utility to give me this functionality or am I 
>> going to have to write a wrapper for a C library?
> 
> 
> Here's a little bit of Ruby code a friend of me wrote -- it will not do 
> everything you want and might even fail at some times, but it should at 
> least get you started.