From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-01-25T09:19:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Looking for code to determine length of audio files

On 1/24/08, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
> > Where does this mp3info come from?  I installed mp3info from
> > http://ruby-mp3info.rubyforge.org/ following Carlo's lead, but it
> > doesn't seem to have a command line component.
>
> osx?  port install mp3info
>
> otherwise: http://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/

Ara,

Thanks!

We'd found another program called sox as an alternative, but at least
on OSX, it's rather slow, it's really an audio file transcoder and it
seems to be doing quite a bit of work to discover the playing time,
several seconds for a 30 minute MP3.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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