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Question about tag writes interrupting playback

Hi. I use Playback Statistics with the "Automatically synchronize file tags" setting enabled, causing tag writes to occur often during playback - at least once per play, often more. This isn't too much of a problem for most conventional audio formats, but for some other more CPU-intensive game audio formats and especially certain sequenced formats, tag writes can cause songs to momentarily pause, or for notes to be dropped, etc., making for a deleterious listening experience. In some fringe cases it can be bad enough to permanently break playback.

I realise that there is a warning about this very clearly signposted in the advanced preferences, alas it's a feature I find very useful or even necessary for reasons of data integrity and continuity, and besides the problem would persist when doing any other retagging. My question is, what is it about foobar2000 that makes this reinitialisation of playback upon tag updates inevitable/unavoidable? Could there be workaround, for example having tag changes only being propagated upon stop or track change (yet still displayed in the interface)? In my case I am using External Tags for 100% of my library, so any tag writes aren't actually touching the source audio file anyway.

(I apologise if this post is more appropriate somewhere else, though it seemed like more of a general foobar2000 usage issue than one specifically to do with playback stats.)

Re: Question about tag writes interrupting playback

Reply #1 –
Issue noted, it has to be indeed bothersome with game audio formats that are inefficient to seek.
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Re: Question about tag writes interrupting playback

Reply #2 –
Hi Peter, I believe you resolved this problem at the same time Playback Statistics was integrated into foobar2000 in v2.0, but I've only just noticed it's an issue once more, I am guessing since beta 18 when Playback Statistics was rolled back to being an external component. I hope this very good change is reinstated!