Hi, i'm trying to run the code on a empeg player.

All seems to work ok, but I need to modify the sources a bit and I have to admit I don't fully (ok, mostly at all !) understand it.

What I need to do is get madlib to read a fixed size chunk of mp3 data, then when playback is N seconds before the end of that chunk I want it to read the next chunk.

IE I am trying read ahead to work round a problem with disk spin up time on the device.

Strictly speaking the code does not need a cache, it can do the read twice and throw the data from the first one away - all that matters is that playback does not stop while the disk spins up, IE read of the real data must never block :-)

I'm using a slightly modified madplayer at the moment linked against an unmodified libmad.

Any advice?

Thanks, Jon