You can get the ID3V2 tags directly from the file but as far as i understand it the tags can be either at the begining or at the end of the file ,, also they can be intermingled with IDV1 tags ,, BASS presents these tags to you in a memory block which is accessed by a pointer. I have found that it is a lot easier to copy this memory chunk into a bank than parsing out the file itself, after all why reinvent the wheel ?.
As for the QWords , these point to the position in the file in bytes you want to play and is esential if you want to be able to fastforward or rewind the music , or if you want to start playing from an arbitary point ,but luckily BASS can be fooled into thinking it`s getting an INT64 (8byte) when in reality it`s getting two INT32`s (4byte).
As for the QWords , these point to the position in the file in bytes you want to play and is esential if you want to be able to fastforward or rewind the music , or if you want to start playing from an arbitary point ,but luckily BASS can be fooled into thinking it`s getting an INT64 (8byte) when in reality it`s getting two INT32`s (4byte).