Re: emms-info-native not setting info-playing-time

On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 at 22:18, Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I think that the problem is that most files out there do not encode the
> song duration at all. My guess is that various tools do some kind of
> calculation to try and figure out how long the track is based on frame
> length and the number of frames.
>
> You can hexl-mode some of the files in question and see how many of them
> have TLEN at the start. I just checked two files at random in my
> collection and found no song duration in the header.
>
> If this is true, we'll have to add that type of approximation
> calculation to emms-info-native.
>
>
I think you may be right.  I just had a look at the source of tinytag and
it does quite lengthy computations to arrive at the duration.

Who knew?

---Fran