My suggestion is to add the ability to show the number of minutes in sound lengths. The reason I wanted to add this is because it's to make it easier to see how long is the song, because seconds-only format is distracting. The format should look like this: 0 min 0.00 s. This was a similar feature in Scratch 1.4 and Scratch 2.0 that allows you to show the number of minutes in sound lengths, but Scratch 3.0 got rid of it. Can you add it back?
Here's a mock up: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/630374979/

Bump.

This suggestion is purely cosmetic as the sounds already display the number of seconds. Can't you just divide the seconds by 60 to get the number of minutes?

I mean, it shows both minutes and seconds to make it easier to see how many minutes and seconds. Dividing by 60 is not sufficient. It shows the number of minutes with a messed up decimal of seconds. Like in an example of a 326.47 second audio:

((326.47) / (60)) // 5.441166666666... 

The 0.00 is too simple format, unlike what Scratch 1.4 (0:00:00) or 2.0 (00:00.00) has. I just wanted this to be added into Scratch.

960times10_5is106044 wrote:

I mean, it shows both minutes and seconds to make it easier to see how many minutes and seconds. Dividing by 60 is not sufficient. It shows the number of minutes with a messed up decimal of seconds. Like in an example of a 326.47 second audio:

((326.47) / (60)) // 5.441166666666... 

The 0.00 is too simple format, unlike what Scratch 1.4 (0:00:00) or 2.0 (00:00.00) has. I just wanted this to be added into Scratch.

(join ((326.47) / (60)) (join [m] (join ((326.47) mod (60)) [s])

Ridiculous workaround but it should work

I haven't needed to use this before, but I can see others using this feature.
Mock-up image:

Ham19-01-2011 wrote:

I haven't needed to use this before, but I can see others using this feature.
Mock-up image:

i can see that resulting into things that are too big for a full display
but support, it would be really helpful

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as in blocks? or in the normal sound tab display

dave-alt-4 wrote:

as in blocks? or in the normal sound tab display

I think the OP has already established this is in the sound tab display. Maybe read a few posts above (especially post 6)?

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5th Bump, I knew Scratch 2.0 has the ability to show the number of minutes but Scratch 3.0 got rid of it. Why?? I just wanted this to be added See:

I hope the Scratch Team will add it soon.

I agree, I think the modern sound editor is lacking, and I think it could benefit from an added time length display.
If I may add, I think it'd also be nice to be able to zoom into the sound in order to trim it more precisely, like how we were able to in 2.0
Not to be one of those “the older version were better, new things suck!!! >” people, but I do miss the 2.0 audio editor and I think it'd be cool to have the same features in 3.0

I mean, the feature is not the zoom-in feature in the sound editor. My suggestion is to show the amount of minutes and seconds in sound lengths. Instead of showing this:
It should look like this:

The thing is that this isn't needed for any reason. Also, every block in Scratch that has an input revolves around seconds, not minutes. It would make it harder to do the following.

play sound [sound v]
say [lyrics v] for (326.47) secs

This would make it harder to make projects with songs that contain subtitles in them.

Then why not like this? It's so you can see the number of minutes and seconds by hovering the sound length in seconds.
See below:

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made a bit of a better mockup:

also ignore the dark mode