mp3 length

Question

hi, i wounder if anyone could help me out of getting the length of a song, im working on a mp3 player(for fun) and it aint much without a trackbar and a label that shows the length.

well if anyone wanna help me out, post some code :)

Answer 1

Hi!

This will help: http://www.developerfusion.com/code/4684/read-mp3-tag-information-id3v1-and-id3v2/

Regards,

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Lucian Baciu, http://studentclub.ro/lucians_weblog

Answer 2

uhm hehe i need more help then that, i can get some stuffs to work but i cant get the length of the song... :/

Answer 3

Hi,

MCI can be used to get the length , the article has illustrate how to use it:
http://dotnet.org.za/deon/pages/3057.aspx
You can try the following code to get the file length.

string str = @"D:\mus\withblank\nocturne.mp3";

string sCommand = "open \"" + str + "\" type mpegvideo alias MediaFile";

mciSendString(sCommand, null, 0, IntPtr.Zero);  //open the file

StringBuilder sb=new StringBuilder(1000);

mciSendString("status MediaFile Length", sb, sb.Capacity, IntPtr.Zero); //query the length of the file

  
Best regards,
Harry