[Flac-dev] command-line flac tool to report song length?

Mike Wren mw at mikewren.com
Wed Oct 29 04:53:13 PST 2003


You can probably do this with shntool:

http://www.etree.org/shnutils/shntool/

MW

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Derek at CD Baby wrote:

> I've got a bunch of flac files and need to report their length.
> 
> With MP3s, you use `mp3info -x $filename`
> 
> But is there a way to find out the length (minutes:seconds or just seconds) of a flac audio file, without converting it to WAV first?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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