i’ve made a playlist of songs with the following lengths: 8:36, 1:06, 7:12, 1:12, 6:47, 3:06, 6:02, 8:10, 9:23, 4:48, 11:07, 8:44, and 2:38. windows media player is telling me the whole playlist totals up to 1:18:56. how is this happening, and (how) can i correct it?
Umm… that looks about right. Remember, there are 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour.
Oh, ok, I see.
8+1+7+1+6+3+6+8+9+4+11+8+2=74 minutes
This makes 1 hour and 14 minutes.
36+6+12+12+47+6+2+10+23+48+7+44+38=291 seconds
This makes 4 minutes and 51 seconds.
Added together, this makes the expected play list duration equal 1:18:51, meaning that the time shown is 5 seconds off.
I think that what you are seeing is the duration of each individual song being rounded to the second, apparently by just dropping any fractions of a second. One solution would be to have the decimal display include tenths or hundredths of a second, but that would require significant changes to the program itself. Honestly, I cannot see why this would bother you.
oh God… i am an idiot. i was thinking it was like 118 minutes.