[dba-Tech] MP3 duration

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Jul 14 17:20:29 CDT 2003


On 14 Jul 2003 at 21:05, Lembit Soobik wrote:

> So far I had only found information in the header to calculate the duration of an MP3 song.
> This becomes a bit timeconsuming with the VBR (variable bitrate) MP3s. there you have to read each frame and identify the bitrate and calculate the duration of that frame.
> Now I have seen in WinXP that the property of MP3 files shows the duration.
> I cannot beleive that they each time calculate it. 
> does anybody know where it is stored? probably in the part where the title, Author etc is, but anybody have more info?
> 
Have you tried "Wotsit's Format"  http://www.wotsit.org

They've got full specs plus  a few other resources for MP3s
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