MAS Player Amiga AMP/AMPlifier MP3 Mixing ????

[leirbag28]

 Hi all.............I was wondering if it is possible to get continuous play of the MP3's without there being a Pause after each song ends?  I have a MASPlayer Pro and AMPlifier.

Is it possible?  or does the hardware need to be able to decode 2 MP3's  simultaneously to do this?  if so there should be MP3 decoders for Amiga that can decode 5 MP3's at once..............this is how it should have been from the beginning...at the very least 3 MP3's at once through hardware.  The same goes for MPEG1 or MPEG2 Decoders....2 streams at the minimum..........

anyway...any ideas how I can play continuous?  without pasting the songs together of course.

Maybe AMPLifier can HALF the rate of the MP3 playing and the upcoming one temporarily, until it fully begins the next song and blends it in..then raise it back to full quality.

I want to DJ with my Amiga Darn it!

[leirbag28]

 Well I am trying to do this on one machine.so that I can leave the machine playing at a party and not have to worry about pauses between songs..........as far as Live DJing, I guess I can use the CDROM and HippoPlayer with a little mixer....since the MASPlayer is connected to my CD32/SX32...and the MASPlayer has a separate Audio OUT which I can take into a mixer along with the CD AUdio OUT of the CD32 and the Audio from HippoPlayer or just Use the DSS8+ softwae for live effects and scratching :-)

[leirbag28]

Never Say Never!!

But anyway.check this out..something I had in my mind for a while.and now one actually exists!  except I was wishing for it for a stand alone eVIC commodore MP3 player.

http://www.numark.com/index.html?http://www.numark.com/products/product_view.php?v=overview&n=132

[leirbag28]

Wow I just discovered you can!  Using AmigaAMP.there is a plugin called CrossFaer which seems to do this......of course it doesnt work for me as AmigaAMP is kinda slow and crappy with the MASPlayer.maybe because of MHI?  why doesnt it use AHI instead like AMPlifier. and MASmpeg.device.

I think it would work better.  can someone port CROSS Fader to AMPlifier?

[leirbag28]

Thanks.....I just downloaded that MHIdev...but I think I already have it as my AmigaAMP already works with my MASPLayer.

and it skips alot, maybe because its going through another software and adding more CPU load?

Anyway about the cross fading.........Did you read what I worte above?   there is a plugin called Cross Fader for AmigaAMP that lets you start 2 instances of AmigaAMP and play 2 MP3s and fade between them. I guess that might require 2 MAS Players?  dont know.

Someone should create a MASPlayer that works from the Floppy port instead of the Parralel port......that way one can SOund sample muci clips from MP3's right within the Amiga! the Parrallel port is too important.

Also.this MHI thingy says one can decode MP3's using a CD32 FMV card??? I would love to see that.

[leirbag28]

@Piru
"Uh, why not just decode the mp3 to direct sampledata?
Decoding, D->A conversion, sampling, A->D conversion sounds a bit stupid to me when you can just decode the mp3 directly"

Huh?  can you repeat than in elnglish please? :-D


@Platon42

Why can't the CD32 FMV  decode Layer 3?  isnt MP3 an audio layer from MPEG1 Video?  it is after all called MP3 MPEG layer1.

WHats the difference in quality between MP2's and MP3's?
is MP3 just more compressed and smaller? or is it better sound?


EDIT:  Mr Platon42..I almost forgot to ask..where you the guy that showed me how to use the MASPlayer from CLI?

What were those commands again?   I have the MAS pro...i remember someone saying that the commands are slightly different.   I want to be able to ply MP3's without using AMPlifier or AmigaAMP, so I can run them from SCALA.

[leirbag28]

@Platon42

Hey?  what about those MAS CLI commands ? :-D

[leirbag28]

@Platon42

Yeah...it was something like that but

MASPlay  STD  or something like that, that took advantage of the MASpro because otherwise it would slow Down SCALA alot if I used the wrong commands or arguments or whatever.

[leirbag28]

Well yeah

But there was something like:  MAS-Play STD
or something like that.


By the way.how the heck to I get Frogger t use masmpeg.device?

there is something in the docs that says use AD MAS or soemthing liek that..but where does one ad that?

[leirbag28]

Ok, I guess I will have to download the lates version of Frogger for 68k 68030 Amigas

Hope I can play MPEG video :-)

the version of Frogger I have is older than the MASPlayer.