getAudioDuration()

Part of the @remotion/media-utils package of helper functions.

Gets the duration in seconds of an audio source. Remotion will create an invisible <audio> tag, load the audio and return the duration.

Arguments

src

A string pointing to an audio asset

Return value

Promise<number> - the duration of the audio file.

Example

tsx
import { getAudioDuration } from "@remotion/media-utils";
import music from "./music.mp3";
 
await getAudioDuration(music); // 127.452
await getAudioDuration("https://example.com/remote-audio.aac"); // 50.24

tsx
import { getAudioDuration } from "@remotion/media-utils";
import music from "./music.mp3";
 
await getAudioDuration(music); // 127.452
await getAudioDuration("https://example.com/remote-audio.aac"); // 50.24