The Owl Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 How long on average are your songs? Well here is a way to find out. If you have your music digitally stored (via programs like iTunes) and have a calculator (a function on every computer) it's easy. Step 1: Find out your total time and total tracks (iTunes dose this for you) 2: Convert Days (if multiple) to hours/ multiply by 24 3: Convert hours to minutes/ multiply by 60 4: Convert seconds to minutes/ Devide seconds by 60 5: Devide the total number by track number 6: Re-convert any decimal # back to seconds/ multiply by 60 Here's mine Total Time--> 12:00:09:36 (12 days, 0 hr, 9 min, 36sec) spans 3532 tracks Convert to hours= 288 hrs, 9 min, 36 sec (12 X 24) Convert to minutes= 17,280 min 36 sec (288 X 60) convert seconds to decimal= 17,280.6 minutes (36/60) Find average track legnth= about 4.89 minutes (17,280.6/3532) Convert back to seconds= (.89 X 60) The average legnth of a track in the Owl's library is 4 minutes, and 53 seconds And that's running the gammit of track legnths from the 48 second "Stop" from Pink Floyds "The Wall" to the 41 minute long (live version) of Dream Theater's "Six Degrees of Inner Turbelance" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRocinanteKid Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Not to sound like a moron but I have slight dyscalculia and everytime I try to do this (Yes even with a calcuator) I mess up. Anyone care to do mine? 1032 songs at 3 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes and 59 seconds in total length. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J0N Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Jan 17 2008, 06:02 PM) Not to sound like a moron but I have slight dyscalculia and everytime I try to do this (Yes even with a calcuator) I mess up. Anyone care to do mine? 1032 songs at 3 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes and 59 seconds in total length. Thanks! Yours is 4.65 mins so like 4 minutes 39 seconds mine is 4.9 minutes so like 4 minutes 57 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRocinanteKid Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 QUOTE (J0N @ Jan 17 2008, 07:31 PM) QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Jan 17 2008, 06:02 PM) Not to sound like a moron but I have slight dyscalculia and everytime I try to do this (Yes even with a calcuator) I mess up. Anyone care to do mine? 1032 songs at 3 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes and 59 seconds in total length. Thanks! Yours is 4.65 mins so like 4 minutes 39 seconds mine is 4.9 minutes so like 4 minutes 57 seconds Thanks. Damn that sucks, I have the shortest average song length so far. Not very Prog-Rock of me, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Another rule being is that you can't combine tracks because they are technically 1 song. For example you cannot combine all parts of "Six Degrees of Inner Turbelance" (studio version) to make one big long track, each individual part is it's own track. But using the live version of SDOIT is O.K as 1 track (from "Score") because that is how it appears on the CD...as 1 track. The same would go for the Diffrent Stages version of 2112. That would be 7 individual tracks not one. But the studio version would still count as one, because that is how it is placed on the CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Jan 17 2008, 12:50 PM) QUOTE (J0N @ Jan 17 2008, 07:31 PM) QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Jan 17 2008, 06:02 PM) Not to sound like a moron but I have slight dyscalculia and everytime I try to do this (Yes even with a calcuator) I mess up. Anyone care to do mine? 1032 songs at 3 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes and 59 seconds in total length. Thanks! Yours is 4.65 mins so like 4 minutes 39 seconds mine is 4.9 minutes so like 4 minutes 57 seconds Thanks. Damn that sucks, I have the shortest average song length so far. Not very Prog-Rock of me, eh? The reason Mine is so short is because I have alot of songs that are shorter than 1 minute. As I mentioned "stop" from the wall is such an example is only 30 seconds. "Embryo" the into to "Children of the Grave" by Sabbath in only 28 seconds long. "Stupid Dream" is only 29 seconds long. And I have the "20th Century Fox Fanfare" (22 seconds apiece) 3 times, 1 for each of the Star Wars Soundtracks. It's this kinda stuff that pulls an average down. In total I have 52 songs that are less than 1 minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadwing2112 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 My average is 5 minutes and 6 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
third hand grace Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 math sucks and I'm a teacher:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fledgehog Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 6.2156... minutes Too lazy to convert to seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rocinante Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 About 4 Minutes 30 Seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 I've added several CDs since I orgionally did my calculation. My average is now 4 minutes and 57 seconds up 4 seconds from my previous average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theanalogkid1982 Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 mine's right around 5:15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted March 17, 2009 Author Share Posted March 17, 2009 Ive added a shit load of music since I last did this... hense the bump I am now up to 4969 songs! Here is my new average.. 5 Min and 10 seconds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReRushed Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 4 minutes and 6 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naturalsciences101 Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Mine's over 7 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J0N Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 QUOTE (J0N @ Jan 17 2008, 07:31 PM) QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Jan 17 2008, 06:02 PM) Not to sound like a moron but I have slight dyscalculia and everytime I try to do this (Yes even with a calcuator) I mess up. Anyone care to do mine? 1032 songs at 3 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes and 59 seconds in total length. Thanks! Yours is 4.65 mins so like 4 minutes 39 seconds mine is 4.9 minutes so like 4 minutes 57 seconds Down to 4.30 now - picked up a few albums with lots of short tracks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 About 5, 5 and half minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfratt Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 About 4.75 minutes 14 days, 4 hours - 4308 songs, ~40gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinwoodsman Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 1,666 songs 4min 27secs on ave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest_of_syrinx Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 5 minutes, 12 seconds 2,381 songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naturalsciences101 Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Look at all these dudes taking measurements. Ya think there's any corellation between track length, and, well, ya know.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadu93 Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Wow.... I actually have a track time not only surpassing the five-minute mark, but nearing six minutes! My average track time is..... 5 minutes, 42 seconds ....probably due to all the Rush and Yes I have (I have 1,613 Rush songs, and I bet about 1,300 of them are bootlegs ; and I have 458 Yes songs.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 QUOTE (Xanadu93 @ Mar 19 2009, 05:53 PM) Wow.... I actually have a track time not only surpassing the five-minute mark, but nearing six minutes! My average track time is..... 5 minutes, 42 seconds ....probably due to all the Rush and Yes I have (I have 1,613 Rush songs, and I bet about 1,300 of them are bootlegs ; and I have 458 Yes songs.) Very Prog! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fledgehog Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 5.1450 minutes 31807 songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadu93 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 QUOTE (fledgehog @ Mar 21 2009, 03:53 PM) 5.1450 minutes 31807 songs fledge, you're crazy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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