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          <rev contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">I've made some minor changes to Dan Ellis's [http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/matlab/mp3read.html mp3read.m] file to get it to work on the Planet CCRMA machines. To get [http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/matlab/mp3read.html mp3read.m] to work, you need 2 external binaries, [http://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/ mp3info] and [http://www.mpg123.de/ mpg123]. The binary for mpg123 is present on the Planet CCRMA machines at /usr/bin/mpg123, but [http://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/ mp3info] is not. I've compiled the binary and placed it [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jsundram/shared/mp3info here].

You can grab my modified copy of Dan Ellis's mp3read [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jsundram/shared/mp3read.m here]. You will need to modify line 96 to point to  the location of mp3info.

In short:
# Grab [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jsundram/shared/mp3read.m my modified mp3read.m]
# Grab the mp3info binary I compiled [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jsundram/shared/mp3info mp3info] (or download [http://www.mpg123.de/ the rpm] and install it yourself).
# You will need to make sure it has executable permission (from the command line, &lt;tt&gt;chmod 755 mp3info&lt;/tt&gt;)
# Make sure that the line 96 of the mp3read.m that you downloaded in step 1 points to the location of the mp3info binary you downloaded in step 2.
# Make sure that &lt;tt&gt;mp3read.m&lt;/tt&gt; is on your Matlab path.
# Use mp3read just like you would use wavread.

Update (7/2/09): Mac users can download all necessary files [http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/13852 here].</rev>
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          <rev contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">The [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple REALSIMPLE] project is a joint project between [http://www.kth.se/eng/ KTH] in Sweden and [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/ CCRMA], funded by the [http://www.wgln.org/ Wallenberg Global Learning Network].  See the project [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple home page] for details.

[[Category:Projects]]</rev>
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