How to get the size and duration of an mp3 file?

Question

I need to calculate the total length of an mp3 file.

Currently I am using a PHP class which I found @ http://www.zedwood.com/article/php-calculate-duration-of-mp3.

Answer 1

Having not been able to find something that was fast and didn't require a bunch of extra boilerplate code, I tweaked an existing server side javascript utility to run directly in the browser. Demo code is available at: https://github.com/eric-gilbertson/fast-mp3-duration