Hello!

From the FAQ:
Why is MP3 seeking so slow?

The MP3 format doesn't natively support sample-accurate seeking, and sample accurate seeking is absolutely required by some features of foobar2000 (such as .CUE playback). MP3 seeking can't be optimized neither for CBR files (frame sizes aren't really constant because of padding used), nor for VBR files (both Xing and VBRI headers in those files contain only approximated info and are useless for sample-exact seeking). Therefore MP3 seeking works by bruteforce-walking the MPEG stream chain and is appropriately slow (this gets faster when you pass through the same point of file for the second time because seektables have been built in the RAM).

I'm running Foobar2000 over a slow VPN Internet connection. On a seek nearly the whole file is read which is very inefficient. Can you add some option where this can be disabled?

BTW: Winamp doesn't read the whole file on a seek, only from the position where it is seeked to.

Thnx.

Wiesl