mp3-details

Get the information about the MP3 file, including its duration blazingly fast

Free of dependencies.

Supports MP3 files with:

[x] id3v2 tags [x] xing/info tag [] lame tag

Usage

const mp3info = require('mp3-details')

// Load MP3 info from a path
const info = mp3info.load('file.mp3')
console.log(info)

// Load MP3 info from a buffer
const fs = require('fs')
const buffer = fs.readFileSync('file.mp3')
const infoFromBuffer = mp3info.load(buffer, buffer.length)
console.log(infoFromBuffer)

API

mp3info.load(path)

Loads MP3 metadata from a file path.

Parameters

• path (string): Path to the MP3 file.

Returns:

• Info: Object containing information about the MP3 file, including its duration in seconds

mp3info.load(buffer, size)

Loads MP3 metadata from a buffer.

Parameters

• buffer (Buffer): The buffer containing the MP3 file data.

• Info: Object containing information about the MP3 file, including its duration in seconds

Info Object

The returned Info object contains the following properties:

• duration (number): The duration of the MP3 in seconds.
• bitrate (number)
• frequency (number)
• layer (string)
• version (string)

Contact

For questions, suggestions, bugs or even to add support for "weird" mp3 encoding, please contact me.