Portable Song Length Finder

Building videos is not just about joining several clips together, and you also need to take the audio layer into account. For a proper clip, you need to sync video and audio layers together, and you might need to quickly locate specific files according to parameters of interest. In case you need an audio file to fit in a particular spot, Portable Song Length Finder lets you quickly identify files just like the name suggests.

Needless to say that this is the edition of Song Length Finder you can use right after download, without having to go through a setup process first. This also means that the computer you use it on doesn’t get affected, because registries are not a dependency. What is required for everything to work as planned is .NET Framework, but Windows usually deploys it as a default feature.

The application’s main window isn’t much to look at, but this doesn’t mean it pushes you away. Its simplicity allows you to quickly accommodate, with most of the space being used to show identified files, while all controls are managed from an intuitive upper toolbar.

First of all, you need to tell the application where to look for songs, and it’s best you narrow down search a bit, because leaving it to the system root folder can take some time to process. Before putting the process in motion, there’s the possibility to have the source folder indexed, so the next search results are delivered almost instantly.

Identifying a song forces the application to look at audio file tags for length. Sure enough, you can do this yourself, but identifying more files becomes frustrating. All you need to do here is write down minimum and maximum time values.

However, overall practicality plunges into freefall as soon as the process is initiated. All goes well, but the preview area is filled with all folders in the way the application reads them, and detected files in the same way. You’re not notified when the process is done, just the number of files found, and you need to manually go through the entire list, in the fixed, compact preview panel.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Portable Song Length Finder comes with good intentions, and manages to help you find audio files of length between time values you specify. The process is finished in a jiffy, but overall practicality has a lot to suffer because of the result report, and no options to at least open containing folder.