How to get the full duration of a song?

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#1

I have a UI that displays the information of a song that you can play with another UI. I have 2 text labels and one displays how long the song has been playing for, but i have another one and i wanted to know if it was possible to have it display the entire length of a song. (Like if the song was 3:00 long, it would say that) Is this possible and if so, how would I do it? (I have a sound and then the song codes you input into a text box get played through that sound)

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#2

Are you talking about Sound.Timelength?

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Sound/TimeLength

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#3

I tried to make a script for it but its not working:

local song = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.HomeScreen.Apps.Music.Background.Music

local songDuration = song.TimeLength

local function digital_format(n)
	return string.format("%d:%02d", math.floor(n/60), n%60)
end

while true do
	script.Parent.Text = digital_format(songDuration)
	wait()
end
#4

Is there any sort of error or output? What do you mean by not working

#5

Double check and make sure this correctly refers to the sound instance.

#6

It’s just not saying the duration of the song it just says 0:00

#7

Then that means it hasn’t loaded
You can combat this by writing

local song = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.HomeScreen.Apps.Music.Background.Music

local songDuration = song.TimeLength

local function digital_format(n)
	return string.format("%d:%02d", math.floor(n/60), n%60)
end

if not song.IsLoaded then
    song.Loaded:Wait();
end

while true do
	script.Parent.Text = digital_format(songDuration)
	wait()
end
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#8

it still didn’t work it just says 0:00

#9

I actually realized I wanted to do something slightly different with this so I had a script that got the full duration of the song and then counted down until it was over but it’s in seconds and I wanted to see if there was a way to convert this into a minutes and seconds format

#10

I fixed this myself:

local sound = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.HomeScreen.Apps.Music.Background.Music

local function digital_format(n)
	return string.format("%d:%02d", math.floor(n/60), n%60)
end

while true do
	local goal = math.floor(sound.TimeLength - sound.TimePosition)
	script.Parent.Text = "-".. (digital_format(goal))
	wait()
end
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