Anyone know of a reasonable mp3 decoder library I can call from Python? Some Googling didn't find anything too promising. It found Pymedia (which plays mp3's through a sound system) and any number of utilities that parse ID3 tags and other metadata. But I want to actually decode the mp3 frames and crunch on the audio samples. Basically I want to write a program that takes an mp3 audio file and finds the silent frames, with the idea of chopping the file into segments at those points automatically, or compressing the silences out of spoken audio to make it play faster without chipmunking up the pitch, etc. Of course if you know of something that does this stuff already, that can help too.
I think I don't need mp3 encoding, just decoding. I want to decode and recognize certain frames and chop them out, but the non-chopped frames will be copied verbatim to avoid quality loss from re-encoding. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list