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find tracks by exact length

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How do i finds all the tracks in the library that have a certain length?

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Best Jakob Hilmer (jakob-hilmer) said : 		#1

With help of the mp3info package you can find the length of a mp3 file.
The following command return the minute : seconds of music.mp3

  mp3info -p "%m:%s" music.mp3

Use find and sort to order your mp3 by length

  find /home/jh/music -name \*.mp3 -exec mp3info -p "%m:%02s\t" \{\} \; -print | sort -n

Or to find those files there are excatly 3:04 long:

  find /home/jh/music -name \*.mp3 -exec mp3info -p "%m:%02s\t" \{\} \; -print | grep "^3:04"

Hopefully this will help you.

Cheers,

Jakob Hilmer

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Panos (vets) said : 		#2

Thanks Jakob Hilmer, that solved my question.