I'm developing an audio player app that uses AVAudioFile to read PCM data from various formats. I'm experiencing severe performance issues when seeking in FLAC, while other compressed formats (M4A/AAC) work correctly. I don't intend to use them in my app, but I also tested mp3 files just by curiosity and they also have this issue. Environment: macOS 26 (Tahoe) Xcode 26.3 Apple Silicon (M1) The issue: After setting AVAudioFile.framePosition to a position mid-file, the subsequent call to AVAudioFile.read(into:frameCount:) blocks for an unreasonable amount of time for FLAC and MP3 files. The delay scales linearly with the seek target, seeking near the beginning is fast, seeking toward the end is proportionally slower, which suggests the decoder is decoding linearly from the beginning of the file rather than using any seek index. (My app deals with “images” of Audio CDs ripped as a single long audio file.) The issue is particularly severe when reading files from an SMB network share (server on Ethernet, client on
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