DMC scripting '.AudioProperties()' gives unexpected results

[ForSerious]

I've got my script running in Python. I've auto-generated and translation layer between the dll and Python.
Tagging functions work as expected.
I need to sort all the files to be converted by duration. That should be contained in the string that AudioProperties(file) returns. All that function returns is a string of "dBpoweramp" though.

Maybe if there's a way to do it with the CLI, I'll do that instead.

[Spoon]

Try the .vbs example, rem out the upper stuff

https://www.dbpoweramp.com/developer/dMC-Scripting%20VBScripting.vbs

[ForSerious]

That does work. dBpoweramp is the last word in the pop-up it makes. I'm guessing my script print-out is removing everything before the last newline character.

The text in the pop-up is highly formatted. I cannot select it to copy it. The Length is listed in a not-so-useful-for-sorting "3 minutes 1 second" format.

[Spoon]

dBpoweramp Control Centre >> Advanced

there is the option of fixing the time presentation

[ForSerious]

Oh interesting. In the Pop-up Advanced settings, I checked "Hide 'dBpoweramp'" and now I get the message "Contains no audio, is zero bytes in size." when I run my script.

I did find the option to fix the duration format. And it's fixed in that VBS example—but it's still not select-able to be able to copy it. Well, that's not the most important. I would rather my script be able to read the results.

Maybe I can bridge the two, but I suspect that the result of .AudioProperties() is not a simple string even in that situation.

[ForSerious]

Sorry but that's not an option:
"Required:
-infile="filename" // specifies input file to convert from, can be '-' for standard input
-outfile="filename" // specifies output file
-convert_to="Wave" // Codec converting to"

There is no option to not convert the file with the CLI. And even if I used the test conversion codec (or whatever it is) I don't think the output was meant to be parsed. So it might be possible, but a lot of work.

[Spoon]

It was AI Spam and removed

[ForSerious]

I have figured out how to get VBS to write to the console. It only writes the last line to the console:

Contains :              Album Art, ID Tag [ID3v2.3]1670]   Bits: (none)   Free-Format

Switching the same script back to using the pop-up window, it displays the full set of data.
Can you rework this behavior?
(I realize this whole scripting functionality might not have been touched in like twenty years, but it could be useful if it was actually compatible with any other program.)
If not, my last and final attempt will be to write a new text file with the full info in VBS and read it with Python.

[ForSerious]

Ah-ha! The .AudioProperties() function is returning with mac style newline markers. If I run Replace(AudioProps, chr(13), vbNewLine) on it, I can get the full string in the command line.
I had to learn how to write it to a file and then notice that that's what it says in notepad, before I could figure this out. And it still stinks that my Python script can't get the same result. So I'm still calling a VB script form Python, and piping the result back in, to get the info I need.

[ForSerious]

Egad!
Two things: I was a fool to use the 'terminal' provided in Intellij—That's why I was only getting the last line of the full text. Running it with the provided Python Shell printed correctly.
And, I must have been defining the path wrong in my first python script. I made another one, and it can read the audio properties just fine. No need for any VBS. So all of this thread was basically me not seeing my own bad syntax. Sorry about that. I did have a journey learning though. If anyone else finds this thread looking to do something similar, the one thing I didn't mention, that might be needed, is you may have to run cscript.exe //H:CScript in an admin level command prompt before it will use the cscript interpreter by default.