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Jason Huggins · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:40 pm Post subject: All you Audiobookers!

What is an easy way to calculate exact total run time from multiple audio files?

I have been adding with a calculator, and that is just crazy!

Bish · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:25 pm Post subject:

I keep a spreadsheet with a little routine that keeps tally of chapters, time and cumulative time etc.

Divide minutes by 60, add the remaining seconds, write down total seconds... repeat, add up and divide by... oh, wait...

There's This!

I still prefer my spreadsheet, but this is quick and simple Smile

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cyclometh · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 4:04 pm Post subject:

In Windows, I open my mixdown folder, select all the WAV files, right-click and select "Properties" and it gives the aggregate runtime.

With a couple of publishers I have to let them tell me what the final runtime is once they've done their edits.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 4:47 pm Post subject:

select all the files in windows (assuming they are MP3 or wav) and the info box at the bottom just tells you.
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Bruce · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:06 pm Post subject:

Create a new playlist in iTunes and drag all your files into it. Your total time is at the bottom.

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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:42 pm Post subject:

Ask the editor/hubby what the total is while I sit back and eat air mailed chocolates.
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ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:00 pm Post subject:

Someone just posted this website...I bookmarked it, but did not write down who provided the link. Sorry!

http://www.grun1.com/utils/timeCalc.html
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Whit · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:11 pm Post subject:

Mandy - yes.

Jason Huggins · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:35 pm Post subject:

I'm feelin' the chocolate thing...sounds like a great plan.

agettig · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:58 am Post subject:

Cool link, Liz. Bookmarked!

I use Twisted Wave and open all the files at once (without merging them). The total time is in the lower right.

Also, there's a cool little a Hobo Tounge

for iPhone called timecalc. I use it a few times a week. It adds time like a calculator and converts nicely too.

Just goes to show you that there's more than one way to get a job done!

Scott Pollak · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:32 am Post subject:

I never even thought about the Windows Explorer thing. Awesome. I just needed this yesterday, too.
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bobsouer · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:36 pm Post subject:

Most of the time now I just use the Windows explorer method, but I also often keep a spreadsheet. If you enter the time as hours:minutes:seconds (even when the hours are zero) you can sum the total with a formula to get the final tally.
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Donna · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:49 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the Explorer thing, Jeff. I've been using Math with a Pencil, and while it produces a very organic, suitable-for-framing product, I'm, well... math is hard, okay?
Chocolate is equally appealing.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:37 pm Post subject:

MATH??? We got into this business so we wouldn't have to do things like.... Math....
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Benjamin Stovall · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:10 am Post subject:

Jeff is right. The last time I tried to use math on here the llama cut me but good.
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