Hi, miraudio('filename','Extract',...) should read just the specified part of filename, not the entire file. What is exactly the miraudio command you use? Cheers, Olivier On 11.6.2012, at 3.39, Cheng-ya Sha wrote: > Hi all, > > Does miraudio(..., 'Extract') read the entire song and then clip the part > specified in the arguments? Or does it just read part of the song specified > in the arguments? > Is it the same for both .wav and .mp3? > > I have this question because when I use miraudio to read the first 30 seconds > of a very long mp3 file, the memory usage of MATLAB rises dramatically and > finally I got out of memory error. However if the mp3 file is shorter there > won't be this kind of problem. > > Thanks very much for your reply in advance! > > > Sincerely, > Alan Sha