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Parse audio track times from an audacity .aup project
#!/bin/sh
# Parse audio track times from an audacity .aup project
# Copyright (C) 2012 William Heinbockel <heinbockel@redhat.com>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then echo "Usage: $0 audacity.aup"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -r "$1" ]
then echo "Error: cannot find audacity file: $1"
exit 1
fi
# Get track lengths
cat <<- EOF | xsltproc --novalid --nonet - "$1"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:a="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/xml/">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:variable name="rate" select="/a:project/@rate"/>
<xsl:template match="/a:project">
<xsl:for-each select="a:wavetrack">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('Slide ',position(),': ',round(sum(a:waveclip/a:sequence/@numsamples) div \$rate),'s')"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('Total: ',round(sum(a:wavetrack/a:waveclip/a:sequence/@numsamples) div \$rate) div 60,'min')"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
EOF
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Many thanks, but how to use it?

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