From: Eric Linenberg <elinenbe_at_umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:53:33 -0400

I agree here. Usually if you press forward quickly on a CD player,
then it will not even attempt to play the tracks you "skip"

-eric

AS> Björn Stenberg wrote:

>> Yes. Technically, there are two things that kill track skipping speed:
>>
>> 1) Bit swapping.
>>
>> 2) ID3 tags.

AS> I understand that skipping to the next track takes some time. But when I
AS> want to skip from track 1 to track 4, why is it necessary to bitswap
AS> track 2 & 3 and read the id3 tags in them?
AS> At the moment, if I press the forward button three times at track 1, the
AS> id3 tags of track 2 and 3 are displayed for a short time before track 4
AS> starts.
Received on 2003-04-08