MP3 Info for EE2?
Development and Programming
I’m looking for an EE2 add-on that can do what MP3 Info does for EE1. Basically, I want to be able to extract file size (in bytes) and the run time from the MP3 file. This is to help me build an iTunes-compatible podcast feed without having to enter that information into custom fields.
Hi Chris
Check out File Oracle. I’ve used it to get all sorts of info about a clients MP3 uploads recently… http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/file-oracle
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Thanks for the tip. I’ve been trying that, but keep getting a “The file was not found - please check your settings” error message. Have you run into that?
No trouble Chris, this is the code I used most recently:
{exp:file_oracle file="/uploads/talks/{talk_mp3}{filename}.{extension}{/talk_mp3}" target="_blank"}
{human_size}
{/exp:file_oracle}…where talk_mp3 is the file field. Does that help?
I think I figured out why this plugin won’t work for me. It wants “relative to the document root of the site” or “full server path” and my fields spit out the full URL (for example http://www.geekforcefive.com/audio/fivecast-314.mp3). It doesn’t seem to be able to handle that. Oh well.
The code I was trying to use was
length="{exp:file_oracle file="{audio}"}{size}{/exp:file_oracle}"Sorry, I should’ve pointed that out Chris!
Would it work for you to hard code the relative directories as per my example?
I’m not sure how I would get the information in the custom field to spit out just the file name so that I could hard code the rest of it. Any thoughts on that?