[Extendflash] Anyway to get the length of a sound?

[David Crossman]

In my case, I'm pulling data from other places and I'll just add a field in my database to hold audio length and automatically populate it using PHP. I was just hoping to avoid storing additional redundant data. The roundabout method sounds like a lot more work than its worth.

Thanks for the quick response!

David Crossman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk [mailto:extendflash-
> bounces at flashguru.co.uk] On Behalf Of "Tore B. Jørgensen"
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:58 AM
> To: extendflash at flashguru.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Extendflash] Anyway to get the length of a sound?
> 
> David Crossman skrev:
> >
> > Was there ever an answer to this question? I'm running into the same
> need...
> >
> > Any way to get the length of a sound, whether through the SoundItem or
> > possibly through frame properties after setting as stream?
> >
> A _very_ roundabout way... You can set the bitrate of mp3, and using
> FLfile.getSize(fileURI) you can get the file size of the swf, so it
> should be possible to change the bitrate, export the swf, find the
> change in filesize which will be the change in size of the mp3,
> calculate the size of the mp3 based on change in size and change in
> bitrate, find the length in seconds by dividing the mp3 size on the
> bitrate... as I said a very roundabout way which you must be desperate
> to use.
> 
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