Re: Estimating track length

[tossel]

2010/8/25 Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2010-08-30@kanis.fr>:
> tossel@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hello, everybody! I need to estimate length of audio file in seconds
>> from emacs. Is such function already implemented in some package? One
>> obvious candidate is EMMS, but I couldn't find information about how
>> to do it. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
>
> What kind of file? Emacs won't tell you the track length of a file. You
> will need to call a separate process which will output the information
> you want.
>
> HTH,
> --
> Ivan Kanis
> http://kanis.fr
>
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>
>

mp3, ogg, wav, wma etc. - the more formats the better.
It's a good idea to find an external program to do this task, but
could not find any either. And if I'll have to develop it myself, it
can be implemented in elisp as well as in any other language.