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Play length of WAV in seconds?

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From: Dave
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:39
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is there a simple way to get/calculate the run time of a wav file.

I know its embedded in the header:

something like  length = samples / samplerate ??

but which bytes hold sample rate and data starts where..

any help would be appreciated..
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From: Dave <bob@bobnet.net>
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Subject: Play length of WAV in seconds?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:39:16 -0500
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