On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Rob Leslie wrote:
When you say "the average bitrate to appear in Winamp" do you mean in the main Winamp display when "Display average bitrate" is enabled, or in the MPEG Audio tab of the File Info dialog?
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.
The former should indeed happen immediately when a VBR header is present. The latter still depends on a full scan of the file, although I'm willing to reconsider the need for this.
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? Cheers.
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