How to get the length of a mp3 link in python?

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I need get a mp3 lenght(from a url) to transform the lenght in seconds for a delay, someone know how to do it?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '14 at 16:09

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Here is an example of retrieving the resource (mp3 file), and printing the track length via mutagen library:

from urllib import urlretrieve

from mutagen.mp3 import MP3


url = 'http://example.com/foo.mp3'
filename, headers = urlretrieve(url)

audio = MP3(filename)
print audio.info.length

answered Mar 01 '14 at 16:09

Corey Goldberg

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I tried to find the mutagen.mp3 module, and i not found it. – Esh Ka Mar 01 '14 at 16:18
pip install mutagen (for python 2) – Corey Goldberg Mar 01 '14 at 16:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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You don't need to retrieve he resource, you can just check the headers as here: How do you send a HEAD HTTP request in Python 2? You want to call the HEAD method which gets you the file size without downloading the file:

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Mar 01 '14 at 16:14

Robert Moskal

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the OP wants song length, not file size. afaik, you must have the track locally to get that. – Corey Goldberg Mar 01 '14 at 16:26

How to get the length of a mp3 link in python?

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