OpenEuphoria

Re: Fast Loading of Large Mp3's (100.000 KB)

• Posted by Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca> Aug 15, 2002
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10963508 at europeonline.com wrote:
> 
> 
> If I load very large mp3 files with bass library, size is about 0.1 MB, it
> takes about 15 seconds to load that file. I want it to load instantly like
> winamp does. Is there any possibility to load them
> fast with this library?
> I open file with BASS_StreamCreateFile ().

I may be way off base here, but doesn't winamp handle mp3's as streams?
With the load time you're talking about, it looks like your entire mp3
is being loaded into memory and that's not streaming, that's loading.
What does the rest of your code look like?

-Ron T.