# Directives: duration

This directive specifies the duration of the song. This can be a number indicating seconds, or a time specification conforming to the extended ordinal time format as defined in ISO 8601. For example, durations 268 (seconds) and 4:28 (readable) are the same.

Duration will always be shown in readable format.

Examples:

{duration: 268}
{meta: duration 4:28}