playtime_string

[Lenton]

For some reason [playtime_string] is only equalling '0:02' or '0:01' when the MP3s are clearly longer than that.

EDIT: It also seems that the [filesize] always equals '32768'.

Note: I am using the script that allows me to use MP3 files on remote servers:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1184

[James Heinrich]

You're downloading 32kB of the file. Hence the file you're analyzing is 1 or 2 seconds long. MP3 file typically do not contain any kind of header that says how long they are in total, so the only way to calculate the playtime of a file is to divide the filesize by the average bitrate. If you need the full playtime you'll need to either copy the entire file locally, or possibly you could get away with copying the first 100kB or so and then padding the local temporary file to match the remote filesize (but depending on file contents you may get file corruption warnings). Ideally you should also grab the last 4kB or so and put it in the correct place to extract any relevant appended tags, if present (ID3v1, APE, Lyrics3).

[Lenton]

What do I need to change in this:

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$filename = tempnam('/tmp','getid3');
if (file_put_contents($filename, file_get_contents('http://getid3.org/demo/test.mp3', false, null, 0, 32768))) {
   if (require_once('/path/to/getid3/getid3.php')) {
      $getID3 = new getID3;
      $ThisFileInfo = $getID3->analyze($filename);
      echo '<pre>'.print_r($ThisFileInfo, true).'</pre>';
   }
   unlink($filename);
}

to make it download the whole file?

[Pernod]

What do I need to change in this:

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$filename = tempnam('/tmp','getid3');
if (file_put_contents($filename, file_get_contents('http://getid3.org/demo/test.mp3'))) {
   if (require_once('/path/to/getid3/getid3.php')) {
      $getID3 = new getID3;
      $ThisFileInfo = $getID3->analyze($filename);
      echo '<pre>'.print_r($ThisFileInfo, true).'</pre>';
   }
   unlink($filename);
}

to make it download the whole file?

Remove all the arguments after file_get_contents as above. This will seriously slow down your analysis since you are downloading all the files and not caching them locally. Each time to re-run the script it will download them all again.

[Windoves]

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<?php
$remoteFile = 'http://us.php.net/get/php-5.2.10.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror';
$ch = curl_init($remoteFile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); //not necessary unless the file redirects (like the PHP example we're using here)
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if ($data === false) {
  echo 'cURL failed';
  exit;
}

$contentLength = 'unknown';
$status = 'unknown';
if (preg_match('/^HTTP\/1\.[01] (\d\d\d)/', $data, $matches)) {
  $status = (int)$matches[1];
}
if (preg_match('/Content-Length: (\d+)/', $data, $matches)) {
  $contentLength = (int)$matches[1];
}

echo 'HTTP Status: ' . $status . "\n";
echo 'Content-Length: ' . $contentLength;
?>

I found this on the interwebz... The only problem for me is, how do I get the bit rate and calculate the playtime?

[James Heinrich]

I found this on the interwebz... The only problem for me is, how do I get the bit rate and calculate the playtime?

Your chunk of code is roughly equivalent to this in the above code examples:

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file_get_contents('http://getid3.org/demo/test.mp3')

-- it gets data from the remote file. True, it's more robust and returns more useful information on failure, but essentially just gets the contents of the remote file.

[Windoves]

Actually it gets just the headers, and not the actual "body" of the file. From this we can get the filesize without downloading the whole file.

[James Heinrich]

Sorry, I didn't read the code closely.

But yes, you could use that to figure out the filesize of the remote file, grab a small chunk of the file (e.g. 32kB) and then pad out the temporary local file to match the filesize, and getID3 will probably report the correct playtime of the file, possibly with some corrupt data warnings. Be aware, however, that some MP3 files may have large ID3v2 tags at the front of the file and even downloading 1MB might be insufficient to even get to the start of the audio data (if there are a lot of embedded pictures, for example). Without parsing the ID3v2 header (which may or may not be present) to calculate the probable size of the ID3v2 tag, it's impossible to know how much data to grab.

[Windoves]

EDIT: FIXED, see post below

[Windoves]

so I have made a patch for the playtime problem. Code is below:

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<?php

$url='http://getid3.org/demo/test.mp3'; // define the remote mp3 file

if($url){
$filename = tempnam('/tmp','getid3');
if (file_put_contents($filename, file_get_contents($url, false, null, 0, 300000))) {
   if (require_once('getid3/getid3.php')) {
      $getID3 = new getID3;
      $ThisFileInfo = $getID3->analyze($filename);
   }
   unlink($filename);
}
}

$bitratez=$ThisFileInfo[audio][bitrate]; // get the bitrate from the audio file

$headers = get_headers($url, 1); // Get the headers from the remote file
            if ((!array_key_exists("Content-Length", $headers))) { return false; } // Get the content length from the remote file
            $filesize= round($headers["Content-Length"]/1000); // Make the failesize into kilobytes & round it

$contentLengthKBITS=$filesize*8; // make kbytes into kbits
$bitrate=$bitratez/1000; //convert bits/sec to kbit/sec
$seconds=$contentLengthKBITS/$bitrate; // Calculate seconds in song

$playtime_mins = floor($seconds/60); // get the minutes of the playtime string
$playtime_secs = $seconds % 60; // get the seconds for the playtime string
if(strlen($playtime_secs)=='1'){$zero='0';} // if the string is a multiple of 10, we need to add a 0 for visual reasons
$playtime_secs = $zero.$playtime_secs; // add the zero if nessecary
$playtime_string=$playtime_mins.':'.$playtime_secs; // create the playtime string

echo $playtime_string;

?>



[Pernod]

so I have made a patch for the playtime problem. Code is below:

For your patch to be vaguely accurate you have to assume the following:
1. Bitrate is constant (not variable). Check $ThisFileInfo[audio][bitrate_mode] for 'CBR' or 'VBR'.
2. Your calculation assumes the whole file to be audio data, not accounting for id3 tags which could include 1000's bytes of image data.

[Windoves]

True, but when I excluded the headers length from the total file size from the files it gave me 4-7 seconds less than actual. This was made for MP3's primarily, and 300,000 bytes have been enough for all my files so far, including those with 2 embedded images that are 300x300px each. I'm sure someone will have use for this.

[James Heinrich]

Referencing cross-posted wishlist thread.

[mrgoe]

It gets just the headers, and not the actual "body" of the file. From this we can get the filesize without downloading the whole file.

[tomriddle]

It gets just the headers, and not the actual "body" of the file. From this we can get the filesize without downloading the whole file.

In some cases, but sometimes you need the whole file to be able to perform such operations, right?
I know that's the case with images, but how would it work externally for MP3s or example...

[James Heinrich]

Most files can be analyzed with only a few kB from the start of the file. Some formats contain all necessary data in the header; some partly between header and filesize; some need to walk the entire file; some tags (ID3v1, APE, Lyrics3, etc) are at the end of the file. So it's variable, depending not only on the file format but also the many possible variations within each format.