On Wednesday January 03, 2001, Ben Hood wrote:
> I mananged to hear shoutcast transmissions using linux on
> 486DX2-66 (16MB RAM), even Michael Polak's one, radio16.cz.
> (well, the one he is involved with) on my 33k modem. This is data
> going from Czech to Australia. :-)
>
> remember, this is streaming mp3, and its sound quality is much
> better than real audio.
>
> I used mpg123, command line mp3 player :-)
I've found that on machines that are just barely up to
scratch for mp3 playing (i.e. DX2 66), the make of the CPU
makes a big difference, with Intel outperforming AMD.
R.
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