# total lengh of album?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/total-lengh-of-album/4730
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 12, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/total-lengh-of-album/4730 "2007-04-12T01:37:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![borodar](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@borodar](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/borodar)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/total-lengh-of-album/4730/1 "2007-04-12T01:37:37Z")

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I like my mp3's to look a certain way (01 - TrackName.mp3)  
and show certain info when played in Windows Media Player 11:  
 ![](http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6808/clp1cl0.jpg)  
track - titleName [length] = TITLE  
ARTIST  
year - albumName [total tracks] = ALBUM)

, so i created my own little stupid action:

_Action type:_ **Remove fields**  
_Field:_ **GENRE;COMMENT**

_Action type:_ **Format value**  
_Field:_ **TRACK**  
_Formatstring:_ **$num(%\_counter%,2)**

_Action type:_ **Format value**  
_Field:_ **TITLE**  
_Formatstring:_ **%track% - %title% '['%\_length%']'**

_Action type:_ **Format value**  
_Field:_ **ALBUM**  
_Formatstring:_ **%year% - %album% '['%\_total\_files%, XX:XX']'**

Please tell me if you see a better... prettier? lol ... way to do that.

But what I would really like to do is to have total play time of all the album tracks to be in the album name after total number of tracks.

I can't figure out how to do that with reg.expressions, what to put there instead of XX:XX?

P.S. Mp3tag is really great, IMHO allowing to create custom formating with powerful build-in Scripting functions and regular expressions makes it absolutly the best!

edit:  
Maybe, I'm doing it backwords? Instead of ugly repeating tag info in other fields I should find a hack for WMP11 that would show the tags i want to see? Please share any advice u have...  
:tide

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### Author: ![zencd](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zencd/32/88_2.png) [@zencd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zencd)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/total-lengh-of-album/4730/2 "2007-04-28T16:44:12Z")

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I have an advice, but not sure you will like it :))

Have you heard about [http://foobar2000.ru/](http://foobar2000.ru/) player? One of its main features is freedom to show any information in any way user likes.

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### Author: ![borodar](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@borodar](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/borodar)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/total-lengh-of-album/4730/3 "2007-04-28T17:51:28Z")

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ty, but i dont like foobar's huge ui ([http://www.foobar2000.com/screenshots/index.html](http://www.foobar2000.com/screenshots/index.html))

Minimized WMP11 sits pretty in the taskbar and shows info only on mouseover.