Sample MP3 audio, 10 seconds

Why test with this file

A clip short enough to play to the end in an automated test, for checking players, duration display and the "ended" event.

What to check

After your application has processed sample-mp3-10-seconds.mp3, confirm that:

• The duration is reported as 10 seconds, to within a tenth of a second.
• Playback reaches the end and the player returns to its stopped state.
• The title from the ID3 tag is shown instead of the file name.

First bytes of the file

The first 64 bytes of sample-mp3-10-seconds.mp3 as a hex dump: offset, bytes, then the same bytes as text. The MP3 signature is 49 44 33.

00000000  49 44 33 03 00 00 00 00 00 78 54 49 54 32 00 00  |ID3......xTIT2..|
00000010  00 1d 00 00 00 53 61 6d 70 6c 65 20 4d 50 33 20  |.....Sample MP3 |
00000020  61 75 64 69 6f 2c 20 31 30 20 73 65 63 6f 6e 64  |audio, 10 second|
00000030  73 54 50 45 31 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 53 61 6d 70  |sTPE1.......Samp|

Technical details

Validated for expected format and integrity. As with any download, scan the file with your own security tools before opening it. How files are made and checked

Download from the command line and verify

Fetch the file with curl, then compare its checksum with the SHA-256 value above.

curl -o sample-mp3-10-seconds.mp3 'https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/samples/sample-mp3-10-seconds.mp3'
sha256sum sample-mp3-10-seconds.mp3     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-mp3-10-seconds.mp3 # macOS

On Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-mp3-10-seconds.mp3 -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell. A matching value proves that the download is complete and unaltered.

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