Greetings!

There is something 'odd' about the format of the mp3 files produced by Lame 3.92 - they take 4 or 5 seconds to load (before the music starts playing) with Windows Media Player, when I load and play the file through a network share.

Mp3's from other sources, of equivalent size and bitrates start playing within a half second through the network share. On the file server, there is no noticable delay (perhaps a microsecond longer). Obviously the 10Mbps LAN is slowing me down, but why only for the mp3's produced by Lame?

It's like some 'feature' of the format forces the player to read all the way through the file. I've tried turning off ID tag preservation, turned off 'professional frequency conversion', and played with a few other settings. Just for interest's sake, I even tried converting one of those 'quick' mp3's using Lame and the Lame version had the same 5 second load delay.

It's not a big problem, but I think it would get annoying over time.
Would the 3.70 Release solve this? What other features would I lose?

Thanks for any advice/assistance.

- Charles Gregory