• Registered: 2008-05-05
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Topic: Networked music problems

  • Registered: 2007-07-08
  • Posts: 790

Re: Networked music problems

Are you sure that the network filesystem data wasn't cached when you ran foobar? That's a pretty large difference and Cog isn't really doing anything special there.

  • Registered: 2008-05-05
  • Posts: 2

Re: Networked music problems

Thanks for your reply. I don't think it was cached, however I think that the problem might lie somewhere else.
I wonder, does Cog need to read the entire file in order to access the tags?

  • Registered: 2007-07-08
  • Posts: 790

Re: Networked music problems

For the mp3 length, Cog will read at most 1 frame of an mp3. For other formats, it depends on the individual decoder.
For metadata, Cog simply hands the filename off to the TagLib library. It does whatever it does to fetch the metadata.
I can put together a debug build to help diagnose what's being slow in this case, but it'll be a bit until I have time to do it.