Also, it would need to be a fixed bitrate.. if it's variable bitrate, I
think you're sort of out of luck.
though, sounds like its a pain to do on your own.. there are no doubt
libraries to do it for you.
for python, I see there is: Pymad
anyway, have fun.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Eli Jones <eli.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not believe there is information in the mp3 header that tell you how
> long it actually is (I think this is just a fluke.. or maybe they figured
> "Oh, they can just calculate it").
>
> You have to get the bitrate (say, 128 kbps) and then find out the total
> size of the mp3.. and use that to calculate what the runtime will end up
> being.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:45 PM, MajorProgamming <sefira...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> That's great info to know. But I more specifically wanted to get the
>> runtime of the file (i.e. in hours, minutes, seconds). Any way to do
>> that?
>>
>> On Nov 26, 2:37 am, Niklas Rosencrantz <teknik...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:14 AM, MajorProgamming <sefira...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Is there any way to somehow fetch an external MP3 file (i.e. from
>> > > another website), and then calculate the length of the MP3 file.
>> >
>> > > I don't need the actual data of the file, I just want the length of it
>> > > (time it runs).
>> >
>> > > Keep in mind that these files can be as big as 25MB...
>> >
>> > > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > Good question guaranteed to depend on host config (could be custom or
>> > fake descriptions) while one mentioned way is use HTTP HEAD
>> > #Call HTTP HEAD in Python
>> > import httplib
>> > conn=httplib.HTTPConnection("www.abc.com")
>> > conn.request("HEAD", "/dir/file1.mp3")
>> > res=conn.getresponse()
>> > fileSize=res.getheader('content-length')
>> > #or res.getheaders() for all headers
>> > conn.close()
>>
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