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João Paulo Saragossa
João Paulo Saragossa

Reputation: 313

Parsing and showing HTML audio current time with javascript

I'm working on a plain JavaScript + HTML audio player and at this time I want to build a interface that show the current time of the audio in the form "MM:SS". For what I could search the HTML Audio/Video DOM Reference has only one native function - audio|video.currentTime - that return the current audio time in seconds with a large decimal precision.

In order to do this I code:

HTML

<audio id='audio' src="http://www.stephaniequinn.com/Music/Canon.mp3" controls></audio>
<div id="timer">00:00</div>

JavaScript

var audio = document.getElementById('audio'),
      timer = document.getElementById('timer');

var update = setInterval(function() {

  timer.innerHTML = audio.currentTime;
}, 10);

I tried a bunch of thing but I could not format the output the way I wanted. Hope some of you guys can bring some light on this.

Codepen sample

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4477

Answers (2)

user5374622
user5374622

Reputation:

Working edited CodePen

Just needed a little math! JS below:

var update = setInterval(function() {
      var mins = Math.floor(audio.currentTime / 60);
      var secs = Math.floor(audio.currentTime % 60);
      if (secs < 10) {
        secs = '0' + String(secs);
      }
      timer.innerHTML = mins + ':' + secs;
    }, 10);

Upvotes: 7

nasso
nasso

Reputation: 603

I think this is the most elegent way:

var seconds = audio.currentTime % 60;
var minutes = Math.floor(audio.currentTime / 60);

timer.innerHTML = ('0' + minutes).substr(-2) + ':' + ('0' + seconds).substr(-2);

Upvotes: 0

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