On Saturday, March 31, 2001, 1:15:53 AM, you wrote:
MP> Hi, MP> Couldn't see this question asked in the archive so... MP> Why is MAD so slow at detecting the correct length and average bitrate MP> of a track? Surely just reading the Xing VBR tag gets all this info in MP> just the first few hundred bytes of an mp3? It strikes me as quite odd MP> that it takes so long to detect this. WinAmps in-mp3.dll seems to have MP> none of these problems.
I'd love to know too. I used LAME to encode about forty of my CDs using VBR. If I use MAD's "fast playtime calculation" then my playlist loads fairly quickly, but the playtimes are grossly miscalculated (23 minutes for a 5 minute track?!). If not, then I usually can go away and watch at least half an hour's worth of television before it's finished loading and calculating the track play times properly.
DRS