Possible without reading the entire file?

[milesegan]

Thanks for writing this. It looks very handy. I'm thinking about using this in an app that manages a lot of files. It looks to me like this reads the entire contents of the mp3 right?

mp3_info/lib/src/mp3_processor.dart

Line 25 in 1f19e98

final bytes = file.readAsBytesSync();

If so, is it possible to just read the header of the file to get this information?

[amugofjava]

Hi @milesegan,

Yes, it does load the entire file. The thinking behind that is, at some point, when I add support for VBR MP3 files I'll need to sample most or all of the file to calculate the duration. For non VBR files, this could be improved upon and only read a portion of the file. I'll look in to that.

[milesegan]

That's a good point I hadn't considered the VBR case. Thanks again for the library!