From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2008-01-25T10:50:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Looking for code to determine length of audio files

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> But looking at an example of the podcast I need to handle, in both mp3
> and aac format, neither seems to have any duration related tags.
> 
> So I guess I need to figure out if there's any way to compute the duration.
> Any ideas anyone?

mp3info tries to estimate the running time unless you run it with the -F option,
which tells it to scan the whole file and count frames etc.

I have a command-line version installed in Debian using apt-get, and the same
version installed in Windows. I haven't tried the Mac version yet.

Clifford Heath.