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Asked: 2026-06-11T12:09:55+00:00

Is there a way to preload the duration before pressing play the first time

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Is there a way to preload the duration before pressing play the first time on an audio player. I know you can use { duration: 120 } which is fine if every clip is 120 seconds long. I do not have the information available in the database to dynamically populate this variable so there must be another way to tweak the MediaElement.JS script to do it.

Any thoughts anyone?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think mediaelement.js has a way of getting the duration before all or part of the file has been downloaded. You could play the video, poll the duration property until you get a value then reset the video to the start. Though that would not be very elegant.

    You could used a JavaScript library like this client side:
    https://github.com/aadsm/JavaScript-ID3-Reader

    If you are using PHP then you could do this server side. See PHP Function to get MP3 duration for more info.

    Hope this helps.

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