I've found some scripts that produce the total minutes and seconds of a combined selection of audio files but not in hours and minutes. Any help would be appreciated.
Mac mini, macOS 14.4
This worked although, I removed the 'Get Selected Finder Items as it multiplied the result by 2. I assume workflow receiving current audio files was enough to pass to the script.
Here is the working code.
It would have been nice to limit the decimal calculation to two points i.e. 19.44.
on run {input, patamters}
set audioFiles to input
-- Initialize total duration
set totalDuration to 0
-- Iterate through selected files
repeat with audioFile in audioFiles
-- Get the duration using ffprobe (requires ffmpeg installation)
set durationInSeconds to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 " & quoted form of POSIX path of audioFile
set totalDuration to totalDuration + durationInSeconds as number
end repeat
-- Convert total duration to hours and minutes
set totalHours to totalDuration div 3600
set remainingSeconds to totalDuration mod 3600
set totalMinutes to remainingSeconds div 60
-- Convert total duration to decimal format
set totalDecimalHours to totalDuration / 3600.0
-- Display the result
display dialog "Total duration of selected audio files: " & totalHours & " hours and " & totalMinutes & " minutes (approximately " & totalDecimalHours & " hours)"
end run
This worked although, I removed the 'Get Selected Finder Items as it multiplied the result by 2. I assume workflow receiving current audio files was enough to pass to the script.
Here is the working code.
It would have been nice to limit the decimal calculation to two points i.e. 19.44.
on run {input, patamters}
set audioFiles to input
-- Initialize total duration
set totalDuration to 0
-- Iterate through selected files
repeat with audioFile in audioFiles
-- Get the duration using ffprobe (requires ffmpeg installation)
set durationInSeconds to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 " & quoted form of POSIX path of audioFile
set totalDuration to totalDuration + durationInSeconds as number
end repeat
-- Convert total duration to hours and minutes
set totalHours to totalDuration div 3600
set remainingSeconds to totalDuration mod 3600
set totalMinutes to remainingSeconds div 60
-- Convert total duration to decimal format
set totalDecimalHours to totalDuration / 3600.0
-- Display the result
display dialog "Total duration of selected audio files: " & totalHours & " hours and " & totalMinutes & " minutes (approximately " & totalDecimalHours & " hours)"
end run
If you already minutes, you can easily turn that into hours and minutes.
Suppose the variable
m
has the total number of minutes.
Then just use
H = m div 60
M = m mod 60
and there you have it.
Both H and M will be integers.
Or, if you want to count the seconds as fractional minutes, and
s
is a variable holding the number of seconds:
M = m mod 60 + s/60
I've created a script that works as need, It would be nice to turn it into a Finder Service action using automator, but I don't know how to adjust to script to suit this need. I would assume that the 'audioFiles' variable wouldn't work in automator. Ideally, I'd like the script to just run when I select the files in finder. Currently using the folder action I've get a pop up to select the files again.
-- Prompt the user to select audio files
set audioFiles to choose file with multiple selections allowed
-- Initialize total duration
set totalDuration to 0
-- Iterate through selected files
repeat with audioFile in audioFiles
-- Get the duration using ffprobe (requires ffmpeg installation)
set durationInSeconds to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 " & quoted form of POSIX path of audioFile
set totalDuration to totalDuration + durationInSeconds as number
end repeat
-- Convert total duration to hours and minutes
set totalHours to totalDuration div 3600
set remainingSeconds to totalDuration mod 3600
set totalMinutes to remainingSeconds div 60
-- Convert total duration to decimal format
set totalDecimalHours to totalDuration / 3600.0
-- Display the result
display dialog "Total duration of selected audio files: " & totalHours & " hours and " & totalMinutes & " minutes (approximately " & totalDecimalHours & " hours)"
Assuming they are not copyrighted, you can post the scripts here. Perhaps someone can help edit them.
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You should add a "Get Selected Finder Items" action at the start, and then add a Run AppleScript action like this:
In my limited test, it did find the files and got ffprobe to run on them, but
I could not overcome an error converting the duration to a number...
I am glad it is working for you, and I learned something too!
I still haven't got it working on my mac, but at least I now know why - it's number format is locale-dependent and is expecting a comma, whereas ffprobe yields a string containing a decimal point.
Apple Script to get the total duration of audio files in hours and minutes.
