http://simonwillison.net/2010-02-01T09:58:47+00:00Simon Willison2010-02-01T09:58:47+00:002010-02-01T09:58:47+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/1/audio/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://jszen.blogspot.com/2010/01/html-5-audio-player-demo.html">HTML 5 audio player demo</a></strong></p> Scott Andrew’s experiments with the HTML5 audio element (and jQuery)—straight forward and works a treat in Safari, but Firefox doesn’t support MP3. Presumably it’s not too hard to set up a fallback for Ogg. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/audio">audio</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox">firefox</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jquery">jquery</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mp3">mp3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ogg">ogg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/safari">safari</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scott-andrew">scott-andrew</a></p>

2007-09-25T16:30:11+00:002007-09-25T16:30:11+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/25/sil/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2007/09/25/drm-free-mp3-downloads-from-amazon">DRM-free MP3 downloads from Amazon</a></strong></p> The good: they have what looks like the entire Universal and EMI catalogues in DRM-free 256bit MP3s. The bad: you need a US billing address! So close... <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon">amazon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/drm">drm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/emi">emi</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mp3">mp3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/stuart-langridge">stuart-langridge</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/universal">universal</a></p>

2007-09-13T17:46:54+00:002007-09-13T17:46:54+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/13/lastfm/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.last.fm/2007/08/29/audio-fingerprinting-for-clean-metadata">Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata</a></strong></p> Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/audio">audio</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/audiofingerprinting">audiofingerprinting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/metadata">metadata</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mp3">mp3</a></p>

2007-02-25T02:13:50+00:002007-02-25T02:13:50+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/25/flash/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player">Flash MP3 Player</a></strong></p> Nice little embeddable MP3 player, with support for single files or Atom/XSPF/RSS playlists. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flash">flash</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mp3">mp3</a></p>

2003-12-04T02:20:40+00:002003-12-04T02:20:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2003/Dec/4/mp3lengths/#atom-tag

<p>Ned Batchelder <a href="http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200311.html#e20031102T135849" title="Reading mp3 metadata">recently wrote</a> about the difficulties involved in extracting the length from an MP3 file. We're going to need to solve this problem soon at work; luckily, it seems that the answer may lie in the Python bindings for <a href="http://www.mpgedit.org/mpgedit/">mpgedit</a>, an audio file editing library available for both Windows and Linux.</p> <p>After installing the <a href="http://www.mpgedit.org/mpgedit/download_sdks.html">Windows package</a> and experimenting for a while, I managed to extract the time from one of my test files using the following:</p> <pre><code class="python">&gt;&gt;&gt; import mpgedit &gt;&gt;&gt; play = mpgedit.Play('example.mp3') &gt;&gt;&gt; play.total_time() (213, 129) &gt;&gt;&gt; secs, msecs = play.total_time() &gt;&gt;&gt; mins = secs / 60 &gt;&gt;&gt; secs = secs - mins * 60 &gt;&gt;&gt; print "%d:%02d minutes" % (mins, secs) 3:33 minutes </code></pre> <p>However, for other files <code class="python">total_time()</code> is returning <code class="python">(-1, -1)</code>. I'm sure there's a solution to this but I haven't stumbled across it yet.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mp3">mp3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>