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mlen.sh | James Hendrie (hendrie.james@gmail.com)
2018-11-03 | README file
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Usage:
mlen FILE[s] or DIRECTORY
Description:
mlen is a bash script that uses ffprobe to determined the total
playtime of a given number of media files.
Requirements:
You'll need ffprobe (ffmpeg), bc and printf. You probably already have
these.
Installation:
You don't really need to install this (it's a shell script), but it makes
things a little easier if you do. To do so, as superuser and within the
root directory to which you've extracted the archive, type 'make install'.
Uninstallation:
Similar to the above, except you type 'make uninstall' instead.
Arguments:
-h or --help:
Print a help screen
-V or --version:
-v
Verbose output
-s
Print totals as seconds, with milliseconds
-S
Print totals as seconds, without milliseconds
-n
Print total number of files tallied (default)
-N
Do NOT print number of files tallied
Examples:
mlen song.mp3
Prints out the runtime of the song
mlen song1.wav song2.wav
Prints total runtime of both the given songs
mlen *.mp3
Prints out total runtime of all mp3s in the present working directory
mlen PLAYLIST.m3u
Reads the playlist and prints the total runtime of the files on it,
assuming they can be found
mlen /home/whatever/media
Prints the total runtime of all media files in the above directory,
recursively
Supported extensions:
Audio
mp3 ogg oga m4a wav wma
Video
mp4 avi webm mpg flv wmv
Playlist
m3u pls
This script is licensed under the zlib License. Check out LICENSE.txt for more
info.
AUTHOR
James Hendrie <hendrie.james@gmail.com>