cant convert song duration from ms to a format h:m:s

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i have developed a code that retrieves songs from sdcard but my problem is am recieving song duration im milliseconds. i want to convert it to a format h:m:s. but have failed. here is my code`

public class SongsActivity extends ListActivity {
    SimpleCursorAdapter adapter;
    MediaPlayer myMediaPlayer;
    private Utilities utils;
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        findViewById(R.id.dura);

        String[] from = {
            MediaStore.MediaColumns.TITLE, MediaStore.Audio.Media.ARTIST, MediaStore.Audio.Media.ALBUM, MediaStore.Audio.Media.DURATION};
        int[] to = {
            R.id.title, R.id.artist, R.id.album, R.id.dura};


        @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
        Cursor cursor = managedQuery(
            MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
            null,
            null,
            null, MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE);

        adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
        R.layout.custom_list_item, cursor, from, to);
        setListAdapter(adapter);
  }

any one please help me show me how i can change MediaStore.Media.Duratio from milliseconds to H:M:S. thank you in advance for your help

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9027317/how-to-convert-milliseconds-to-hhmmss-format](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9027317/how-to-convert-milliseconds-to-hhmmss-format) — Matt K, Mar 25 '14 at 14:02
a SimpleCursorAdapter won't be sufficient for that. You'll need to override some parts of `bindView` or `getView` — njzk2, Mar 25 '14 at 14:28

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 14:21

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A trivial DateUtils.formatElapsedTime:

DateUtils.formatElapsedTime(timeInMillis);

See documentation

answered Mar 25 '14 at 14:21

njzk2

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 14:17

Assuming that you already have the duration in milli seconds (ms)

String.format("%02d : %02d : %02d", 
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(ms),
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(ms) -  
TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(ms)), 
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(ms) - 
TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(ms)));

The above code will convert it to HH : MM : SS (note %02d to specify the number of digits)

cant convert song duration from ms to a format h:m:s

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