MP3s play just fine, from the hard drive. I don't recall if they play
properly from the CD or not. I'm thinking they were still jerky, but I'll
check to make sure this evening.
Skyler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Chris Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Let's see... to play audio, a CD drive has to read at.... 1x. I doubt
> the drive is too slow. It should be possible to have the hardware in
> the drive play audio, but if it's extracting data and playing through
> the sound card, that's going to take IDE, memory and I/O bandwidth,
> and that could easily be a problem on an old machine.
>
> However, if it's old enough to have that problem, it may be slow to
> play an MP3 file too. MP3 playback requires about a 75MHz Pentium
> doing nothing else, IIRC.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Skyler Orlando
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks for your answer, Eric.
> >
> > I tried disabling CDRCACHE, but it didn't make a difference. It's a
> pretty
> > low-end laptop, so I wouldn't be surprised if the CD drive was too slow.
> I
> > actually wondered about that after I sent the email.
> >
> > I guess I'll just have to rip the CD to MP3 on a different computer, then
> > copy it to the hard drive to play the CDs. It seems to copy data OK.
> >
> > That brings me to my other question, is it possible to configure MPXPLAY
> to
> > play a file or playlist and then close automatically after it's done? I
> was
> > going to look at the manual but I haven't had time, and I didn't remember
> > seeing it in there before when I looked, so forgive me if I just missed
> it.
> > :)
> >
> > Skyler
>
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