Madder Mortem - Mercury (1999)

When doing my review on Madder Mortem’s album “Mercury” I encountered the following:

•     On the PA album page the total time of the album is said to be 50:33. This is not correct. It should be 51:58

With great reluctance I have to say that I think you're wrong.

IMO opinion the following is the case:
Each track time is given in minutes and seconds. The seconds however are rounded of. So there can be split seconds but we don't see them. We only notice them when we add up several track times and the split seconds together are more than 0,5 second (because that is rounded up to 1 second).

And about the 50:33 : I think that we both have got the same idea. When you add up the minutes of each track the result is 48. Adding up the seconds of each track gives 233 seconds. That is 3 minutes and 53 seconds, not 2:33 (48:00 + 2:33 = 50:33)!

Cheers.

OK, I understand that the "total time" should fit the sum of separate tracks' lengths. In that case 51:53 is indeed correct.

I was under the idea that the "total time" was the time displayed as the total playing time in the display of my CD-player (which was 51:58).

OK, understood. Fine by me.

I'll stick to that definition/explanation from now on.