[Scummvm-devel] Idea: IndexedMp3AudioStream

[yotam barnoy]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Johannes Schickel <lordhoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Marcus Comstedt <marcus at mc.pp.se> wrote:
>>> Johannes Schickel <lordhoto at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>> I take this index file will be written to disk too? I mean else we
>>> would still suffer from the long delay on every time the MP3 file is
>>> opened. Now how do you plan to handle filename clashes, like you have
>>> two games with MP3 files for CDDA setup and then start one and then
>>> the other, since savepath is the only real save place to write you
>>> can't just use the mp3 filename and save the index to savepath.
>> [...]
>>
>> It seems to me that the correct solution is not to have ScummVM write
>> the index, but rather the tool which creates the MP3 from the CDDA
>> tracks.  Then it becomes just another datafile (which does not need be
>> writable), and the savepath is not involved.
>>

I think that's a terrific solution.

>
> That seems sensible, but that makes me wonder is there such a tool
> already (i.e. a predefined format for that index file) or would we
> have to write that tool for ourself? The later of course would make it
> slightly less comfortable for the users to rip mp3 files, since they
> couldn't use their standard ripper. But I guess since only small
> devices are affected by this, it might be fine.

What we could do is have a tool that simply takes mp3 files and
creates index files for them. Then we don't have to mess with ripping
CDs (which I believe could be a cross-platform pain).

Yotam