Audio in Maya.standalone

Hi all, has anybody ever used audio with maya.standalone?

we have a backend process that our build machines trigger which involves the import of audio files for processing. Now by the look of it you can’t import audio in Maya standalone, or rather, the audio you import is a placeholder as it always has no length… which is a real issue for us. Anybody have any insight on this?

thanks

Mark

import maya.standalone
maya.standalone.initialize(name='python')
import maya.cmds as cmds
audioPath="mywavfile.wav"
cmds.file(audioPath, i=True, type='audio', options='o=0')
audioNode=cmds.ls(type='audio')[0]
cmds.getAttr('%s.endFrame' % audioNode)