What are the longest and shortest tracks in you music library?

So technically the longest track is "MD122" by Radiohead (1:13:13). The thing is it's part of a collection of demos called Mini-Discs (Hacked), and each disc is indexed as one track, so it's not one continuous song. Discounting that and a couple tracks that are extra long because of hidden tracks, the longest proper song I have is "Magellan" (33:26) by Disco Biscuits. The shortest is "Yeah" by Kyuss (0:04), which is just one of the band members saying "yeah".

Edited by MikeK on Nov 1st 2020 at 12:16:58 PM

The Shortest Track: The Girl I Left Behind Me. It's from a marching band and a traditional English folk song that was adopted during the American Civil War. Clocks in at 1mins and 18sec.

The Longest Track: This medley of sea shanties made by Anton Betita. It's a bunch of shanties featured in AC 4: Black Flag put into one big song. Clocks in at 6mins and 50sec.

Officially, Traffic's John Barleycorn is the longest at 6mins and 50sec.

Shortest: Taikatalvi by Nightwish. (about 2 minutes)

Longest: The Greatest Show On Earth by Nightwish. (about 20 minutes)

Shortest: Song 2 - Blur; Duration: 2:01

Longest: Paradise by The Dashboard Light - Meatloaf; Duration: 8:28

Shortest: Doctor by Jack Stauber 0:34

Longest: All You Wanna Do by Six the Musical 6:50

shortest: grim reaper by teen suicide (0:59)

longest: vivian and ondine by william basinski (45:07)

shortest: avalanche rock by the avalanches (23 sec)

longest: bring the sun/toussaint l'ouverture by swans (34 min 05 sec)

Edited by Routeferret on Oct 24th 2022 at 7:31:10 PM

Shortest: The Library (Intro) by Childish Gambino. My computer says it's 0:05, but Youtube says 0:04.

Longest: Technically, it's Irene by Beach House which is 16:57 long. If you discount it for having several minutes of silence in the middle, the next longest is Only Skin by Joanna Newsom, at 16:53.

Shortest track: "Hocus Pocus" by Moron Police, 1:20.

Longest track: "Jesus of Suburbia" by Green Day, 9:08.

Technically, the longest one I have is "The Camera Eye" by Rush (10:58), but I was only looking at what I had on iTunes.

Edited by Oratel on May 5th 2024 at 4:14:20 AM

Shortest: Kabuki Girl by Descendents (1:11)

Longest: Departure from the Northern Wasteland by Michael Hoenig (20:57)

Shortest: WDPK 83.7 FM by Daft Punk, 0:28

Longest: Sick and Panic by Macintosh Plus, 12:33

Longest: Robbie Williams: The Road to Mandalay from Sing When You're Winning: 28:16 (It's that long due to having 24 mins and 9 seconds of nothing)

Shortest: Brief Interlude: Armed Bastards from Life on Mars (2006) : 0:04

Edit: I just realised that in my collection, The Road to Mandalay is longer due to it combining the song's 3:57 runtime + 24:09 of absolutely nothing, and the bonus part starting at 28:09, then , Genesis: Supper's Ready from Seconds Out is the longest uninterupted at 24:41.

Edited by Agent2583 on Sep 30th 2021 at 11:57:34 AM

shortest: womb night by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (1:05)

longest: space 8 by Nala Sinephro (17:32)

Edited by Heyitsgalaxycreeper on Oct 23rd 2022 at 11:01:57 AM

What's the easiest way to figure this out? I have on the order of 6500+ songs in my library, I'm not going to sort through them by hand.

Shortest: Zug Izland - Untitled Interlude, a 5 second silent track, but I don't feel like this really counts, so the shortest actual song I have is System Of A Down - 36, at 47 seconds.

Longest: Limp Bizkit - Everything, at 16 minutes. Second longest is Exist by Avenged Sevenfold at 15 minutes and Conspiranoia by Primus at 11 and a half minutes.

Edited by ZuggaluggalocoroG on Mar 29th 2023 at 4:54:40 AM

shortest: intro - gorillaz (from demon days as a sort of intro to my library) (1:06)

longest: trapped in the drive thru - weird al yankovic (10:50)

i don’t know if i did anything wrong in this post

Edited by c1beat7per9minute on Jun 17th 2023 at 12:30:23 PM

Shortest: "A Foggy Day" by the Nu-Sounds (a long-forgotten doo-wop group produced by Sun Ra), 1:05

Longest: "Art of Life" by X Japan, 29:00

Longest track: "Suburbia Overture" by Will Wood at 6:17. Runner-ups are "Infotain Me" by Ochre and "Feed Me" by Grand Theft Ecstacy, both at 6:11.

Shortest track: "Bed Bath and Batman Beyond" by Origami Angel at 0:55. Runner-up is "A Lady" by Tally Hall at 1:04.

Out of all the music I've downloaded: Longest: Fishmans - Long Season (Live) (41:32; off 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare). The runner up, funnily enough, is the studio version of Long Season. Shortest: Combatwoundedveteran - I'm Sweet, I'm Sexy, and I'm Oh So Chocolate (:10; off This Is Not An Erect, All-Red Neon Body).

I pretty much only have 4 C Ds, and they are, in no particular order: Kanye West - Late Registration Green Day - Dookie Lorde - Pure Heroine Fiona Apple - Tidal

Plus I have some more, but they're pretty much all CD singles and stuff.

Edited by nouserforaname on Sep 16th 2023 at 12:11:04 PM

For shortest, it used to be a track from a Vulfpeck album called "Sleepify" and it's just a 30 seconds of silence, for longest, it used to be Prisencolinensinainciusol (4mins) by Adriano Celentano.

For current shortest and longest music, it's, somehow, a self composed track from an I Phone app called Launchpad (10secs), and Every Fatrat Song Ever Made (10mins) by Beyond Gaia's Horizon.