Very long time of parsing of tags (mp3, mp4, ...)

Lukáš Lalinský lalinsky at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 08:56:36 CET 2011


On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Vladimir Skuzovatkin <skzvlad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I try to write "tag editor" with using "TagLib" library.
> OS: Windows, library version number: TagLib 1.6.3.
> I found next problem.
> The file (mp3, mp4, ...) is opened for a long time (>30 sec) after writing
> to it a image (attached picture, coverArt).
> For example:
> 1) Small (~10Kb) PNG image was written into media file. Time of opening file
> (after writing of image) is equal to ~4 milliseconds.
> 2) Small PNG image was deleted from media file and big (~400Kb) PNG image
> was written into media file. Time of opening file is equal to ~30 seconds.
> Why the time to open (to parse tags) is very big?
> Can you reproduce this error?

It would be best if you could send me the files to lalinsky at gmail.com,
so that I can see the difference on the same files. I'm not aware of
anything that would cause such slowdowns.

Lukas


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