I haven't tried reading user-selected local files, but it should be possible to read the data into the Web Audio API and find out its duration from there. Jory me@jory.org http://studio.jory.org On May 29, 2013, at 2:07, Srikumar Karaikudi Subramanian <srikumarks@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I believe what you're looking for is to load the audio file using an <audio> element and > watch for the HAVE_METADATA readyState. This is an independent HTML5 feature > and not part of the Web Audio API. > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html#htmlmediaelement > > -Kumar > > On 25 May, 2013, at 11:08 PM, Nopmop Siarf <siarfnopmop@hotmail.fr> wrote: > >> hi there! >> >> I’m a student in a master program called “media design” in Geneva >> >> I’m curently working on a collaborative web audio Platform and i’ll probably need some tips, I don’t know who exactly i’m writing to right now, but may I ask you some spectific questions ? :) >> >> I try to get the duration of an audio file in javascript before the submission of the file with a form >> I think i have to exctract meta data from the header, and there is probably something to do with the fileReader thing but I’m a bit stuck! >> >> well thanks in advance if someone has an idea, have a nice day guys >
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