Is this even possible? grab metadata from mp3 from the beginning of an upload!

[Saimon Moore]

Thanks Grzegorz...

I should have investigated id3 location first.

Custom flash looks like the only possibility right now...

The reason I mentioned the server was a stupid thought of doing two
uploads, the first to extract the id3 data and the second to actually
upload the whole file but this while I still assumed id3 was at the
beginning of the file.

Anyway, thanks again.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Grzegorz Nosek
<grzegorz.nosek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:01:26PM +0100, Saimon Moore wrote:
>> My boss has asked me for the following features:
>>
>>  - Have uploads of mp3 tracks to our service be made asynchronous
>>  - Immediately allow editing of the track form
>>  - Grab the tracks metadata (i.e. from the file header) from the
>> beginning of the upload to prefill the form
>>
>> My initial reaction was that it wasn't possible but I decided to ask
>> around to see if other had any other ideas. Would this be possible
>> perhaps via chunked transfer? Or perhaps some custom flash?
>
> As the ID3 tag of an mp3 file is at the end, I guess you're SOL unless
> you implement it client-side (IIRC it's a fixed-length structure at the
> very end of the file; comes in two major versions). Probably a flash
> uploader will be required.
>
>> The reason why I'm asking here is that I recognize it could be made
>> possible with a custom nginx module I guess.
>
> I'm not sure the web server of choice is of any relevance here, but to
> keep on topic you may wish to have a look at the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.nginx.org/Nginx3rdPartyModules#Upload_Module
> http://wiki.nginx.org/Nginx3rdPartyModules#Upload_Progress_Module
>
> Best regards,
>  Grzegorz Nosek
>
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