Re: How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?
Thanks Phil but I usually need everything to run at least on both Windows and Mac. On May 31, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote: On 5/31/13 2:16 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: You might be right Jackie. I'm not sure how to guess how many desktop systems there are without Quicktime installed so it might not be an issue. The overall goal is to display a progress circle like the one Fetch uses while a sound is playing. The idea is the circle will make one complete trip for the duration of the sound. Dar, nice ideas and very interesting but the user will be supplying the audio files so I'm not sure how that would work out. I'm currently looking into the link Warren supplied to Media Info although I'm not sure how I'll tie it into my standalone. Hi Ray, I maintain one app that has mediaInfo in the app bundle, and the app uses shell() to run it as needed. So that's one option on the Mac at least. Phil Davis On May 30, 2013, at 5:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/30/13 2:36 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: I know this is available with QuickTime using the CurrentTime and TimeScale properties but if the user doesn't have QuickTime installed I'd hate to be stuck. Are there any other ways to get the duration of an audio file? Can you say what the goal is? Maybe there's another way to do it. All Macs have QT. If a Windows user doesn't, Media Player should run and the same functions should be available as long as you're using player objects. I'm not sure about Linux, I hear there are some issues with players there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Phil Davis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?
You might be right Jackie. I'm not sure how to guess how many desktop systems there are without Quicktime installed so it might not be an issue. The overall goal is to display a progress circle like the one Fetch uses while a sound is playing. The idea is the circle will make one complete trip for the duration of the sound. Dar, nice ideas and very interesting but the user will be supplying the audio files so I'm not sure how that would work out. I'm currently looking into the link Warren supplied to Media Info although I'm not sure how I'll tie it into my standalone. On May 30, 2013, at 5:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/30/13 2:36 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: I know this is available with QuickTime using the CurrentTime and TimeScale properties but if the user doesn't have QuickTime installed I'd hate to be stuck. Are there any other ways to get the duration of an audio file? Can you say what the goal is? Maybe there's another way to do it. All Macs have QT. If a Windows user doesn't, Media Player should run and the same functions should be available as long as you're using player objects. I'm not sure about Linux, I hear there are some issues with players there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?
On 5/31/13 2:16 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: You might be right Jackie. I'm not sure how to guess how many desktop systems there are without Quicktime installed so it might not be an issue. The overall goal is to display a progress circle like the one Fetch uses while a sound is playing. The idea is the circle will make one complete trip for the duration of the sound. Dar, nice ideas and very interesting but the user will be supplying the audio files so I'm not sure how that would work out. I'm currently looking into the link Warren supplied to Media Info although I'm not sure how I'll tie it into my standalone. Hi Ray, I maintain one app that has mediaInfo in the app bundle, and the app uses shell() to run it as needed. So that's one option on the Mac at least. Phil Davis On May 30, 2013, at 5:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/30/13 2:36 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: I know this is available with QuickTime using the CurrentTime and TimeScale properties but if the user doesn't have QuickTime installed I'd hate to be stuck. Are there any other ways to get the duration of an audio file? Can you say what the goal is? Maybe there's another way to do it. All Macs have QT. If a Windows user doesn't, Media Player should run and the same functions should be available as long as you're using player objects. I'm not sure about Linux, I hear there are some issues with players there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Phil Davis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?
I know this is available with QuickTime using the CurrentTime and TimeScale properties but if the user doesn't have QuickTime installed I'd hate to be stuck. Are there any other ways to get the duration of an audio file? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?
I don't have a good solution but here are some crazy ideas... If these are all sounds you supply, you can write a script that times all the sounds in some folder (or stack) and creates a table. If you know these all are the same bit rate and the same number of channels, and there is no compression in the format, then maybe you can estimate from the file length. Tweak an offset to cover headers and trailers. Maybe there are some command-line tools that can work with shell(). I quick search brought up names like mp3info, soxi, afinfo, mp3split, and sox. Or, if you handle only a small number of sound formats, parse the files. Dar On May 30, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: I know this is available with QuickTime using the CurrentTime and TimeScale properties but if the user doesn't have QuickTime installed I'd hate to be stuck. Are there any other ways to get the duration of an audio file? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?
On 05/30/2013 02:36 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: I know this is available with QuickTime using the CurrentTime and TimeScale properties but if the user doesn't have QuickTime installed I'd hate to be stuck. Are there any other ways to get the duration of an audio file? ___ http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
