7 Apr
2015
7 Apr
'15
11:38 a.m.
On Sam, 2015-04-04 at 15:12 -0400, Martin Peach wrote:
Most of the tags give the name but not all of them give the length, and since mp3 is compressed in a non-linear way, there's no way to determine the length except by playing it.
If the file is compressed with a constant bitrate, it's easy to calculate the play duration. Not so easy with variable bitrate, though some programs still seem to do it correctly. mplayer does it wrong, mpv does it correct, for instancce. I don't know how the "intelligent" ones do it.
Roman