If you want to use a scripting language i advise you to choose Perl, and use the MP3::Info module. If you're not familiar with perl you can start reading some documentation in http:www.cpan.org wich is also your source to find Perl modules. This module can give you bitrate information, sample rate, frequency, and even the id3 and id3v2 tags. There's plenty of different modules so you can peek the one that's suitable to you. As an example take a look at my script made with Perl so you can see what kind of info it takes.
http://www.dcc.online.pt/~c9807025/cgi-bin/mp3.pl The only info added by hand was the encoder type, wich i don't know any perl module that take it, and encspot is down :( Anyway you can also try python, there's some python module that also gets mp3 info. look for a small python program called pyslsk it's a soulseek client and uses a python module to read mp3 info. Hope that this work with you, but anyway there could be also other ways of getting your job done. Cheers. Filipe > Hi all, > > i am trying to do some server side encoding using lame. > > Basically i want the web user to upload a mp3. If the mp3 is of a high > enough bitrate, (say 64kb/s mono). then i want to encode a low fi version > (say in 16 or 20 kb/s). > > Can i detect the bitrate in lame? and if do, how do i return the value? and > act upon it? The server side encoding will be done a windoze machine. I am > guessing i will need to use a scripting language... any suggestions.... > > has anybody got links to example code that does something similiar to this. > > thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > david. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
