All,
When I run the mdls command on a ringtone file to fetch its duration, the output is always null. For e.g running
mdls -raw -name kMDItemDurationSeconds SomeTone.m4r on the terminal returns (null) as the output. When I check the info for the ringtone in iTunes, I see that it's 14s long. Same issue when I try to fetch the total bitrate for the ringtone using mdls. It also returns null. Why does mdls fail ?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Itunes would be the application that imports the metadata - are those metadata keys in the database at all? Is the file in a folder that is indexed by Spotlight?
@red_menace. I force Spotlight to index the folder before running the mdls command on the ringtone.
I do mdimport "$folderName" before running the
"mdls -raw -name kMDItemDurationSeconds SomeTone.m4r"
statement. Inspite of that i get the "null" output. I ran the afinfo command on the ringtone and I was able to extract the duration. I have no idea why afinfo works and mdls doesnt
mdls command returns null for ringtone duration
