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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:20:33 -0500, Vic wrote:
Playing local mp3's over here (K6-2 233, 64 megs ram) has never gave me any probs,, I
use
xmms to listen...
>What about playing mp3s that are on your local drive?
>My sound skibbles terrbly and I cannot even play the dam things
>unless I shut down to maintenance mode.
>and downsample to 22050.
>
>I have a AMD4864-133Mhz with 32meg ram
>
>
>On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>> > > How fast of a machine do you have?
>> >
>> > When I first started playing Mp3's on my machine, it was a Pentium 166 with
>> > 80 megs of RAM. Now it's a PIII 450 with 128 m/RAM. Both machines gave me
>> > the same problem. When I upgraded to the PIII 450, I expected the problem
>> > to go away but it didn't.
>> >
>> > -Bill
>>
>> Since mp3's have become popular, I've had a P200 @ 225, a
>> PII 350 @ 467, now a PIII 450 @ 505 soon to be a PIII 450 @608.
>> All have had lot'sa ram, and all have had a 28,8 connection. I
>> live in a rural area of Arkansas and my phone lines are the
>> limiting factor.
>>
>> Every one of these system's has pauses (while buffering)
>> playing mp3's off the Net. So much so that all I can viably
>> do is download the mp3's (about 3k/sec) and then play 'em.
>> I don't believe a lot of cpu horespower/ram is needed to play
>> mp3's ..... just good phone lines ;-)
>>
>> MOF, only flying planes justifies the cpu horsepower I want ...
>> and it never seems to be enough :)
>> --
>> .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
>>
>> > > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>> > > > >%_I just had to make a post about this because Linux impressed me when
>> > it comes to playing Mp3's on my computer. I used to listen to them in Win98
>> > when I was surfing the Internet and everytime I changed to a new web page,
>> > there seemed to be a loss of 'processing power' taken away from the Mp3
>> > player I was using (Winamp). This was causing the music to skip or come to
>> > a halt momentarily and then start playing again. I remember that someone
>> > else was having the same problem and had enquired about it. They had
>> > recieved a reply that explained how Win9x wasn't able to deal with the two
>> > tasks (web browsing and Mp3 song being played) very well and that was the
>> > reason for the poor playback of. Anyhow, I have been listening to Mp3's
>> > inside of Mandrake 6.1 and browsing the web without the music being
>> > interrupted at all. I like that.:)
>> > > >
>> > > > -Bill
>> > > >
>> > >
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>> > > --
>> > > Vic
>> > > Student Of Linux
>> > >
>--
>Vic
>Student Of Linux
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