On May 15, 10:31 pm, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 15, 6:49 pm, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On May 15, 6:42 pm, John Krukoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 17:32 -0600, John Krukoff wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 17:11 -0600, John Krukoff wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:35 -0700, max wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > It doesn't look like you can, with mutagen. So, time to find a > > > > > different > > > > > library that supports arbitrary file objects instead of only file > > > > > paths. > > > > > I'd suggest starting here: > > > > >http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=id3&submit=search > > > > > > Possibly one with actual documentation, since that would also be a > > > > > step > > > > > up from mutagen. > > > > > After a bit of time looking around, looks like nearly all the python id3 > > > > modules expect to work with filenames, instead of file objects. > > > > > I can't vouch for it, and the documentation still looks sparse, but this > > > > module at least looks capable of accepting a file object: > > > >http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tagpy > > > > > Looks like it'd be a challenge to build if you're on windows, since it > > > > depends on an external library. > > > > > Alternately, you could probably create a subclass of the mutagen stuff > > > > that used an existing file object instead of opening a new one. No idea > > > > what that might break, but seems like it would be worth a try. > > > > > As last ditch option, could write the first few kb of the file out to a > > > > temp file and see if mutagen will load the partial file. > > > > Okay, now I'm officially spending too much time looking through this > > > stuff. > > > > However, looks like the "load" method of the MP3 class is what you'd > > > want to override to change mutagen's file loading behavior. Probably > > > pass the URL as the filename, and take a cut & paste version of the > > > default load method from ID3FileType and change it to use urllib2 to > > > open it instead of a local file open. > > > > Might work. Might not. No warranty express or implied. > > > -- > > > John Krukoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Land Title Guarantee Company- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > I'm supposed to question "time.toomuch.spend". NAMERS!- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Is there a way 'time.toomuch.spend' can be scanned for in code? If > not, let's play!
really, really appreciate your help, john. gonna have to ponder my next move here... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
