diff --git a/dots/bash/.bashrc b/dots/bash/.bashrc
index 4d6c0e2..de007b0 100644
--- a/dots/bash/.bashrc
+++ b/dots/bash/.bashrc
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ alias nr="nitrogen --restore"
 alias quantumfix="pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-quantum 1024"
 alias sb="source ~/.bashrc"
 alias sbr="source /home/poq/syncDir/gitRepos/gi.op.fo/lnx-arch/dots/bash/.bashrc" # source bash (from) repo
+alias sizeInBytes="stat -c %s"
 alias ssh_weba_r="ssh -t root@178.156.192.201 -p 1808 'export TERM=xterm; cd /tmp; bash -l'"
 alias ssh_weba_u="ssh -t usr@178.156.192.201 -p 1808 'export TERM=xterm; cd /tmp; bash -l'"
 alias starwars="telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl"
@@ -606,6 +607,12 @@ pdfCompress() {
     -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=$1.compressed.pdf $1
 }
 
+# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8933053/check-duration-of-audio-files-on-the-command-line
+lengthInSeconds() {
+    ffprobe -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 $1 2>/dev/null
+}
+
+
 
 # ---
 # ajp related