CPAN module MP3::M3U::Parser question

rgammon51 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

The documentation for this module tells us to call the routine new() with several parameters to initialize several variables used in the module.

The parameter of interest is -seconds.

The literals "-seconds" and "mm:ss" are accepted without error, yet return 346 seconds for average and 5356 seconds for total time. This is unformatted output.

This should not be difficult, yet I do not understand what the documentation is asking me to do.

This is my reintroduction to Perl. Twenty years ago, I was doing some minor Perl programming on Solaris for Sparc.

Perl version is 5.15.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 for x86.

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Re: CPAN module MP3::M3U::Parser question by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 22, 2012 at 13:45 UTC
How exactly are you calling MP3::M3U::Parser? Please show the relevant code, even better if it is a self-contained program. I interpret the documentation that `->new` expects to be called like: `my $parser = MP3::M3U::Parser->new( -seconds => 'mm:ss', );` [download] ... but I have no convenient way of testing things at this time.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: CPAN module MP3::M3U::Parser question by rgammon51 (Initiate) on Apr 22, 2012 at 23:18 UTC
`#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use MP3::M3U::Parser; # use Data::Dumper; print "Read MP3 Test file \n"; my $parser = MP3::M3U::Parser->new(-seconds => 'mm:ss'); $parser->parse("/home/rgammon51/Documents/Playlist.m3u")->export (-ove +rwrite => 1); my $result = $parser->result; my %info = $parser->info; printf "Number of Songs in this list :: %s\n ", $info{songs}; printf "Total Time to play all songs :: %s\n ", $info{ttime}; printf "Average Time of all songs :: %s\n ", $info{average};` [download] This ending part does not generate mm:ss results The formatted time only appears in the html file. My goal, ultimately, is to use this module to generate a shell script to update the contents of my mp3 player that I carry around daily. it is a cheap player that does not implement shuffle, so I must update its contents periodically with new material, and most importantly in a different order. This code uses your hint as to how to proceed. however, the screen output from printf is just seconds, not hh:mm:ss. This appears to be a characteristic of the code in the CPAN module, and to change it, I must modify the source.	[reply] [d/l]