24 Sep
2001
24 Sep
'01
6:07 p.m.
Mark Powell wrote:
I mean in the file info dialog. Winamp displays the bitrate as 32Kbps or whatever until the average bit rate is available from the plugin. This is noticably slow on large mp3s.
Why does it require a full scan of the file. Surely the information from the VBR tag is already lying around to provide this info instantly?
The idea behind scanning the entire file is to provide completely accurate information, even in the face of an incorrect VBR header (e.g. the file is truncated or has been spliced together.)
Perhaps a good solution would be to display the VBR header information until the scan is completed.
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Rob Leslie
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