More efficient way of random seeking in an mp3 file?

"Robert John Shepherd" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.mad.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Currently in my MP3 player (using libmad) I have to scan through an entire
mp3 to calculate an accurate playtime and build up a random access seek
table.

On the platform I'm using, this can be very slow taking 3 minutes plus for a
35 minute vbr file.

Is there a better way of calculating the length of an mp3 if it isn't in the
id3 tag, and/or a better way of jumping to a certain time frame within an
mp3 without having scanned the entire thing beforehand?

TIA!



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