From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Estimating track length Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:48:48 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87tymi5z5r.fsf@kanis.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282925249 11618 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 16:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:07:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 18:07:27 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 1Op1SV-0007Tn-TJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:07:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Op1SS-0006Rk-N6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47499 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Op1Dk-0002K4-H9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:54:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op1Ap-0000HX-IB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:51:56 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op1Ap-0000HB-B8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op1An-0004Nn-De for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:48:57 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:48:57 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:48:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74818 Archived-At: Ivan Kanis writes: > 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, EMMS does show playing time. Possibly look into something like emms-playing-time-enable-display and related functions.