Right now, due to the weakness of mp3 stream format, seeking in mp3 files can be REALLY slow (try to seek in typical 50-100MB file with indian raga...) due to the necessity of generating an index for the file.
What about saving the generated index in a file, for future use?
This could vastly improve seek times for already heard tracks. What's more, the index files could be pre-generated for selected files to allow for fast seeks in the future.
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QUOTE(filon @ Apr 5 2005, 04:03 PM)
Right now, due to the weakness of mp3 stream format, seeking in mp3 files can be REALLY slow (try to seek in typical 50-100MB file with indian raga...) due to the necessity of generating an index for the file.
What about saving the generated index in a file, for future use?
This could vastly improve seek times for already heard tracks. What's more, the index files could be pre-generated for selected files to allow for fast seeks in the future.
What about saving the generated index in a file, for future use?
This could vastly improve seek times for already heard tracks. What's more, the index files could be pre-generated for selected files to allow for fast seeks in the future.
Hm, what about using N.I. Traktor's stripes for this purpose?
Ronny
You could put your mp3s in an mp4 container by using mpeg4 tools component - this fixes seeking, but makes the files incompatible to anything but foobar AFAIK, the mp3s can be easily extracted later thought.
QUOTE(ilikedirtthe2nd @ Apr 5 2005, 08:52 AM)
You could put your mp3s in an mp4 container by using mpeg4 tools component - this fixes seeking, but makes the files incompatible to anything but foobar AFAIK, the mp3s can be easily extracted later thought.
I know about that but as you said, it breaks compatibility with other software/hardware. Saving indexes outside mp3 files wouldn't have this problem.
foobar2000 stores indexes in db, so just enable it.
QUOTE(vasya_pupkin @ Apr 5 2005, 07:50 PM)
foobar2000 stores indexes in db,
No.QUOTE(vasya_pupkin @ Apr 5 2005, 07:50 PM)
so just enable it.
What are you talking about?
QUOTE(vasya_pupkin @ Apr 5 2005, 07:50 PM)
foobar2000 stores indexes in db, so just enable it.
It doesn't.
Please try to avoid making misleading statements like that in the future.
Really? Oops. Sorry then. 
My problem is not the actually seeking of the MP3 files - OK with 200mb livesets it can be a bit slow but I can live with that! My problem is how slow it is to skip between tracks? I have a large db, about 9,000 songs but it tracks an age to skip between them, or even select a different playlist?
Could the problem be that I have alot of my music on a external hard drive connected via usb? It has never been a problem with winamp in the past so I don't believe it is!
Any help would be great!
Could the problem be that I have alot of my music on a external hard drive connected via usb? It has never been a problem with winamp in the past so I don't believe it is!
Any help would be great!
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