On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Mathew Hendry wrote:
From: "Mark Powell" M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk
Why is MAD so slow at detecting the correct length and average bitrate of a track?
Because it has no support for Xing/VBRI tags. As an MPEG audio decoder, these are really outside its remit.
Really? I understand the strict definition, but isn't knowing the length of a track quite useful? Why go to the trouble of programming this "fast playing time" checkbox when you can just read a few hundreds bytes to get the same information completely accurately?
The Winamp plugin might be adapted to support them, though.
And so it should. It seems such an elementary oversight for an otherwise exemplary piece of software. I have a reasoanbly fast machine and sometimes go back to Nullsoft's plugin just to get rid of the ~30s that WinAmp stops responding for. Cheers.
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