[mad-user] Calculating playing time and bitrate

Hi, In the last release the reading of VBR tags was implemented. However, the function still seems slow. The time it takes for the average bitrate to appear in winamp seems to still be related to the size of the mp3, as though the plugin has to read through the entire file before the bitrate is available. Surely just reading the 100 bytes or so of the VBR tag is enough to work out the playing time and average bitrate? Why is this function still so slow? Cheers.

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