From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ivan Kanis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Estimating track length Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:24:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87tymi5z5r.fsf@kanis.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282917677 9690 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 14:01:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs help To: tossel@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 16:01:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OozUY-0004UR-I8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:01:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OozUX-0003aR-IK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40523 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoKds-0007t7-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoKdp-0006vY-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from kanis.fr ([75.127.73.245]:2757) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoKdp-0006vF-KS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [89.83.137.164] (helo=tao) by kanis.fr with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OoKdm-0003KI-O0; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:24:02 -0400 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAB5QTFRF IBkXUxMTOCwoTC4qcUY8iFxQmmper31txpaJ/v/8aKZ1oAAAAcVJREFUOMt100tu2zAQAFDCXnUZ oAcIqG68LZULVLQBbwuSiffm6AIRRyeotAySJoVu2+FPpJWWC3/4NKOZocSW/yxWfnJ2+Bdwzhj7 8gleWVy7DXC2rkMNr2V/zRbghXIwthf3VbIA9Ffc71vZCSFyCEsBggtNS8ludwvfmhYA0Vn9o4DP zMWxR7+cPWzAYFzwM0ModtdmcDbDS6i/hT7L+RZof5yCXGrYe5jn2YO6BYMjgY+51tCIAqHgBLwR pwLnGuRjAKyBJkuN4yd4U92uCY1vUr2D/c5b8DuxyQwfOHUeaLqDJhnkkuGXbB56h2C1IVBdgncc bBi6feroa9B6jUDojnQPQKupbyXyeeCE1oT7Oqrt+SnfY3mkiyGA/3AmD3H5g32CcBx6hY8pRkwJ 9PpcjRGobUfprFnhAa1vepwcgMOhwG+pdSgKHFU9HAvoAH6XUl7lDUCCq5Qb6GMbVm3Aj++qDYCt wdBc/YHgOFCmS3mjDMRcSE2qY4E3Q3PVIQRQmeodNH4QEbRUFZzW+VotzwX4yTcRTySOML1qjcE5 hTirVqDHkMAP0PjAywp3d18JZtqzvr9zDYD+GaSKtE6Zlr/DLPNFmOcvBAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== In-Reply-To: (tossel@gmail.com's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:27:24 +0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:00:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74811 Archived-At: 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 In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin