Use apple script to get the duration of soundfiles and send the info to FileMaker

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set aFile to choose file
tell application "Finder" to set filename to name of aFile
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " = "
set duration to text item 2 of (do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemDurationSeconds " & quoted form of (POSIX path of aFile))
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
set total_seconds to text item 1 of duration
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set showsec to (total_seconds as integer) mod 60
set showmin to (total_seconds as integer) div 60
display dialog filename & return & return & "Duration:" & return & showmin & " min " & showsec & " sec"
So this is for one file. How do I get the information for the other 5000+ files and send it to the FileMaker DB. Obviously the "display dialog" won't do so it'll have to be changed to something like "get". How do I proceed from here?

Hi Preetha7,
I found one automated SQL Server Health Check Solution which may meet your needs. The daily health checks include checking CPU utilization, database status, available disk space, network packet errors, database backup status, and more. For more detail about
this solution, please refer to the following article:
http://sqlmag.com/database-administration/automated-sql-server-health-check-solution
In addition, if you want to write your own script to perform a quick health check of SQL Server using PowerShell, please refer to the following article:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/07/25/use-powershell-to-monitor-your-sql-server-performance.aspx
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
Regards,
Jerry Li

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