diff --git a/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/metadata.py b/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/metadata.py
index c8749d48d..013fd8a27 100644
--- a/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/metadata.py
+++ b/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/metadata.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ import mutagen
 import math
 import os
 import copy
-import wave
-import contextlib
 from collections import namedtuple
 from mutagen.easymp4  import EasyMP4KeyError
 
@@ -214,11 +212,7 @@ class Metadata(Loggable):
 
         # Hickity Hackity for .wav files. Properly do this later
         if mmp.extension(fpath) == 'wav':
-            with contextlib.closing(wave.open(fpath,'r')) as f:
-                frames   = f.getnframes()
-                rate     = f.getframerate()
-                duration = frames/float(rate)
-                full_mutagen.set_length(duration)
+            full_mutagen.set_length(mmp.read_wave_duration(fpath))
 
         # Finally, we "normalize" all the metadata here:
         self.__metadata = mmp.normalized_metadata(self.__metadata, fpath)
diff --git a/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/pure.py b/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/pure.py
index 5a0cf9b90..72f0f5030 100644
--- a/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/pure.py
+++ b/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/pure.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import copy
 import subprocess
 import os
 import math
+import wave
+import contextlib
 import shutil
 import re
 import sys
@@ -97,6 +99,13 @@ def is_airtime_recorded(md):
     if not 'MDATA_KEY_CREATOR' in md: return False
     return md['MDATA_KEY_CREATOR'] == u'Airtime Show Recorder'
 
+def read_wave_duration(path):
+    with contextlib.closing(wave.open(path,'r')) as f:
+        frames   = f.getnframes()
+        rate     = f.getframerate()
+        duration = frames/float(rate)
+        return duration
+
 def clean_empty_dirs(path):
     """
     walks path and deletes every empty directory it finds