OpenCart mp3 preview

What is the best metho开发者_开发问答d and player for giving an audio preview on an OpenCart store. This would involve uploading the full track and then extracting a portion to be played

m3psplt is by far your best bet.

It can sometimes be a little dicey to install (particularly on CentOS, other RH based distros) but it's really the only solution I've found.

I usually run a script that analyzes the mp3 with getid3 to get the length, then I calculate the halfway point of the mp3, and pass that plus thirty seconds to mp3splt via the exec command to mp3splt.

It works great when you can get it to install properly. If you're on debian/ubuntu it's actually a cinch to install via aptitude.

The only other thing I could think do do would be to wrap your command line unix audio editing utilities in a php script to basically create a "grab 2 minute head of MP3" function, then run that on files when they are uploaded. then yes, save them in a "previews" area of the file system and store the filename in a DB table for later reference.

I've found a PHP script that could fit your needs (please note I didn't tested it). You can find it here. The class interface seems simple and functional. Anyway, you will need to modify your OpenCart product template to expose the preview command.