Recordings with padding

[Spectrum]

I have a recording that consistently runs a few seconds past the end of the hour so I have the favorite set to stop 1 minute after the scheduled stop time. When playing back the recording, I've noticed that Diamond shows the recording length as 1 hour and when it gets to the +1 minute at the end of the recording it shows the time as -mm:ss as it counts down to the end.



It would make more sense if it was shown as +mm:ss. Not sure if this is even something you guys have control over so I thought I'd bring it up here before bugging it.

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by Spectrum

I have a recording that consistently runs a few seconds past the end of the hour so I have the favorite set to stop 1 minute after the scheduled stop time. When playing back the recording, I've noticed that Diamond shows the recording length as 1 hour and when it gets to the +1 minute at the end of the recording it shows the time as -mm:ss as it counts down to the end.



It would make more sense if it was shown as +mm:ss. Not sure if this is even something you guys have control over so I thought I'd bring it up here before bugging it.

What you are seeing is just the result of the math. We are taking a positive number (the show length) and subtracting how long it has been playing (in this case a larger positive number) and displaying the "time remaining" which in this case is negative as it has been playing longer than the length of the show.

Not sure I see this as something we would want to change as we show a positive (no sign (+)) number prior to the end of the show length.

k

[Spectrum]

I thought about it this AM and figured that's how the time remaining was being calculated. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to have negative time at the end of a recording

AFAIK the only way to counter would involve a test for negativity every time it's updated, a multiplication to change the sign, and a contcatenation with a + sign. Not sure it if it would be worth the overhead. It's not something that bothers me, just a little odd seeing negative time at the end of the recording. That's why I asked here instead of just bugging it