On May 15, 6:18 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 15, 9:00 pm, max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you're right, my java implementation does indeed parse for Id3v2 > > (sorry for the confusion). i'm using the getrawid3v2() method of this > > bitstream class (http://www.javazoom.net/javalayer/docs/docs0.4/ > > javazoom/jl/decoder/Bitstream.html) to return an inputstream that then > > i buffer and parse. apologies if i misrepresented my code! > > > back to python, i wonder if i'm misusing the mutagen id3 module. this > > brief tutorial (http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki/Development/ > > Mutagen/Tutorial) leads me to believe that something like this might > > work: > > > from mutagen.mp3 import MP3 > > id3tags = MP3(urllib2.urlopen(URL)) > > > but this gives me the following TypeError: "coercing to Unicode: need > > string or buffer, instance found". does this mean i need to convert > > the "file-like object" that is returned by urlopen() into a unicode > > object? if so, do i just decode() with 'utf-8', or is this more > > complex? as of now, doing so gives me mostly "No such file or > > directory" errors, with a few HTTP 404s. > > [snip] > I think it's expecting the path of the MP3 but you're giving it the > contents.
cool, so how do i give it the path, if not in the form of a URL string? maybe this is obvious... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list