seek in audio file based on time

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Seeking through an audio file based on the packet level is simple. One just has to change currentPacket when filling the next buffer:

AudioFileReadPackets(_audioFile, false, &numBytes, _packetDescs, _currentPacket, &numPackets, buffer->mAudioData);

But what if you want to seek to position 10s from the beginning of the file? For the CBR files this should be simple to calculate - but what about VBR files?

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iphoneiosaudiocore-audio

1 Answers

1
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The solution is to use the ExtAudio* API. One can convert the input files to LPCM on the fly and then seeking becomes trivial.