Each Layer III frame holds about 26ms of audio data (at 44.1kHz) so you
could
see up to this much latency just to sync with the next frame.
If you are unlucky enough to jump past part of the bit reservoir holding
bits
for the next frame, the frame will not be able to be decoded and will be skipped, adding even more latency.
I know that this would require some work on the decoder, but I think that it should be possible to jump to a granule instead of a frame.
Bye,
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