Automatically trimming an mp3 in PHP

Question

Are there any ways to automatically trim an MP3 uploaded to a website to 30 seconds (or some other length) in PHP? If not, is there any good 3rd party services that could b

Answer 1

In Debian/ubuntu try installing mpgtx:

apt-get install mpgtx

mptsplit input.mp3 [00:00:00-00:00:30] -o output.mp3

I'm sure you'll find mpgtx available in other fine Linux distros too, or just install from source.