Petteri Hintsanen <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 01:14:07PM -0500, Yoni Rabkin wrote: > >> Do you have any input or insight regarding implementation of track >> duration for emms-info-native? > > Do you mean populating 'info-playing-time for a particular file (track)? > It can be done, but it will require scanning the whole file to get the > information. There is no duration information in the metadata. So decoding > will become somewhat slower. > > I can try to hack a prototype if there is a need for that.
That would be welcome. If you already have the infrastructure to read frames then a lot of the work is already done. But I realize that since a lot of files are not constant bitrate, there is a good amount of calculation to do. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
