How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu May 30 17:37:34 EDT 2013


On 5/30/13 2:36 PM, Ray Horsley wrote:
> I know this is available with QuickTime using the CurrentTime and
> TimeScale properties but if the user doesn't have QuickTime installed
> I'd hate to be stuck.  Are there any other ways to get the duration
> of an audio file?

Can you say what the goal is? Maybe there's another way to do it.

All Macs have QT. If a Windows user doesn't, Media Player should run and 
the same functions should be available as long as you're using player 
objects. I'm not sure about Linux, I hear there are some issues with 
players there.

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