no inputstream?

[max]

On May 15, 9:51 am, castironpi <castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 15, 8:37 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 May 2008 06:08:35 -0700, max wrote:
> > > i currently have locations of the mp3s in question as strings, which
> > > works for parsing local files, but gives me a "No such file or
> > > directory" error when it tries to process URLs.  it seems terribly
> > > inefficient to download each mp3 just to get at that small tag data,
> > > and i assume there's a way to do this with file() or open() or
> > > something, i just can't get it to work.
>
> > You can use `urllib2.urlopen()` to open URLs as files.  But if you deal
> > with ID3 V1 tags you'll have to download the file anyway because those are
> > in the last 128 bytes of an MP3 file.
>
> > Ciao,
> >         Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
>
> Just don't import time.  What would you do with an autolocking timer,
> such as time.sleep( ) on a thread?  I am tongue tied in the presence
> of a lady.

thanks guys.  i guess i just figured there'd be a way to get at those
id3 bytes at the end without downloading the whole file.  if java can
do this, seems like i should just stick with that implementation, no?