total duration of all tracks in a directory

[ahmetist]

Hi there. How can i see the total duration of all tracks in a music directory without creating a playlist inside my android phone? Even freak windows does it that then i am sure that VLC already does it too.

[kentfkruhoeffer]

At the moment, as far as I know, VLC does not display the 'total duration' - or the 'total number' of tracks in the directory. It would be nice to have both of these features, I agree with you. VLC for video has come a long way over the years. For music, they are still working out bugs and making improvements. Let's put it on Santa's wish-list for a future update. I have (usually) been a good boy.

[ahmetist]

haha it is ok. I would rather still VLC. it is the best for me

[unidan]

Probably kind of linked to this ticket, if you want follow up: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc- ... issues/513

You can try creating a new ticket, but please mention this one as it is linked it would help tracking.

[kentfkruhoeffer]

Hello, Bonjour, Salut!

Thank you for posting the link, unidan.

Here's a screenshot of my phone that shows more clearly what the OP is talking about. At the top, you can see the total number of tracks in my music folder [10,833] as well as the total duration of those tracks - in hours, minutes and seconds [749:40:23] i.e., 749 hours, 40 minutes and 23 seconds. Perhaps you could kindly forward this to the music developers when you have a spare moment?

Merci beaucoup! Rock on, dudes.

[Dekans]

Good idea, we just have to find out where to put this info in our current UI.

[Crazed_by_Penguins]

I think this is a great idea as well! As in the picture posted by kentfkruhoeffer, my thought is that it should be near the top, so it's close to the "action" buttons (play, add to playlist, etc).

Also (since I didn't see this anywhere else in the thread), when songs are selected I think it should display the count and playtime of just those songs, probably preceding it with "Total:" or "Selected:" depending on the context. (Although thinking about this from a performance perspective, it would be easy to calculate the total count and time once during media scanning and simply store and display it, while with the selected songs the playtime would have to be calculated on the spot. So, I guess it would depend on if it would cause a noticeable slowdown.)