Hellow everyone!
Can someone help me to find a way to get an audio file run in a random location each time I open it?

Thanks for helpers.

Could you please rephrase the question? I'm not sure exactly what you're asking.

Haha! They told me that on the other forum, too.

Well let's see....

I need to change an audio file to run in a random spot each time I run it, for example:

If I'll run it now, it'll open in 2:55.
Next time it'll do on 3:67 of somthing like that.

I besically want to reprogram my audio file so it won't run on 0:00 seconds anymore, but to just open in a random spot inside the file!

I don't think you're going to find any software to do that. I would be an easy feature for a programmer to add to his/her program, but you may be the only person who wants that feature...

Three minutes and sixty seven seconds?

What operating system are you running on?

I'd approach this, on a Linux like OS, by: writing a script which retrieves the length of the audio, calculates a random position between 0 and the end of the file (minus some minimum play time), and invokes mplayer with the given initial offset. Making this script clickable is easy.

I'm sure you could do something similar in Windows with a .bat script and an audio player which includes command line support.

I was kinda searching for the code.
They told me it's an easy job for a JavaScript programmer, so I figured I give it a try.
Do you mean, noone wants that? A shame, it's very...useful thing, duh.



That's an example of a random spot, yes, it could just open in 3:67 instead of 0:00 and in 7:55, if he just feels like it.


fracai, I need the script, I don't know how to write it, and I think I'll need some explanation on how to implement it. ><"
I'm running a shitty windows vista.

The length of the file is 4:50:35.

You missed the joke... pdq was teasing you... 3 minutes, 67 seconds is more commonly written as 4 minutes, 7 seconds!

In order to use a script that controls an existing program, you'd first need a music-player program that allows you to open and start in the middle of a file, from the command line.

I didn't think of using a script... I was thinking along the lines of a programmer modifying his existing audio-player program (i.e the Foobar 2000 guys could add this feature), or a programer could modify modifying an open-source audio player.

Oooo.. right! I feel so teased right now...arrr.
Wait, about the program you spoke of, I need the file to change, I mean...if the audio-player can change the file so other audio players would start it in the same way (random or watever) this would be good.
What I don't need is a program who just happens to have the option of starting the file randomly, because I'll need to use this file later on an ouside MP3....

I've tried seraching for such a method. IT DOESN"T EXIST XD. So, the only option left is to use an open source audio program to change the file (was that making sense?).

Yeah, I've had the urge to implement this too on occasion.

You could use the scripting access to QuickTime to do it. I forget if it's through OLE or AppleScript, but it's plausible that you could write a script to open up a file in QT and seek to a random position.

You're likely using Windows, but here is an (extremely basic) AppleScript that works on OS X 10.5 with QuickTime Player:

Three seconds and 67 frames.. It's random.