Youtube vide of my A1200 playing an MP3

[dougal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5IEXyazalE

You can see my A1200 playing an MP3 (excuse the song lol) .

A1200 with Blizzard 1230 , 16Mb Fast ram , OS3.9

[dougal]

Sir_Lucas wrote:
Nice video
But you should try Prayer btw, use it with Madonna's "Like a prayer" :-D

http://aminet.net/package/mus/play/Prayer2

It's much faster.
Give us some feedback after trying it.

I'll give it a go tomorrow  :-)

[dougal]

I couldn't show the A1200 because it is tucked in a section of my desk quite lower than my monitor .

Even if i had to show it , there would be now way i could show the wires leading to the monitor .

The song was a crappy song because its an mp3 30 second sample from Amazon since that is all i could fit on a PC formatted 720K floppy .

I can't do better for now because i don't have enough space on my desk to setup the external CDROM and my PCMCIA CF card reader doesn't work .

And yeah i do agree that it is a waste of bandwidth to a certain extent especially to people here who know that the Amiga is capable of that and much more .

But having said that , people who use youtube and their last Amiga memories are that of 15 years ago and never since would love seeing a classic Amiga playing MP3's which probably didnt even exsist at that time .

It might even push some people to take their Amiga's out and use them again . Maybe .

[dougal]

BooBoo1200 wrote:
Have you heared of the Mas-Player
http://eab.abime.net/album.php?albumid=92&pictureid=839

But the Mas-Player isn't using the actual Paula sound chip from the Amiga .

I like the fact that a 15 year old Amiga is using its own hardware and playing MP3's .

[dougal]

LOL

I am cheating too ... My actual ROMS are 3.0

I run OS3.9 because i use Blizkick which when i turn on the Amiga kicks it into kickstart 3.1 :-)

But i am waiting for a kickstart 3.1 romset i bought from ebay ;-)

BooBoo1200 wrote:
True - Can I have some extra points for running OS3.5 on original commodore 3.0 Roms :lol:

[dougal]

Thanks :-)

I like many of you had abandoned the Amiga way back somwhere round 1996 . I even sold my 1st Amiga 500 Plus so that i can buy a PC . Shame on me !!

But lost over a year later i regretted it badly and whilst working at a computer shop built up an Amiga 500 using parts from 2 broken A500's .

Today nearly 12 years later , i STILL have this A500 and it still works perfectly :-)

So yes , the Amiga keeps impressing me even today , especially today with all these lovely upgrades and accessories being released for it , and with such a thriving , friendly and interesting community on amiga.org .

save2600 wrote:
@Smerf... don't hold back mate, tell us how you really feel! lol

And Dougal's got a point about people not being aware of some of the Amiga's capabilities. That's one of the great things about the Amiga, she continues to surprise! Some have stuffed her and OS3.0 in the closet, are reminded of her thanks to an internet video or website like this, dust her off, install a new OS and can fall in love all over again  :-)  

The Amiga is like a time machine, only it keeps getting better every few years. The few times in my life I've laid a Miggy to rest for a while, *something* new: be it hardware or software related has popped up. Still going on today with the GVP products, Deneb & Indivision, just to name a few.

[dougal]

Got my PCMCIA CF adapter ... And ive put full lenght MP3's on the Amiga .

They work :-)

160Kbps 44Khz :-)

And i even managed to Multitask too :-)

[dougal]

The player im using is AMPlifier V2.21 which came with OS3.9

brianb wrote:

dougal wrote:
Got my PCMCIA CF adapter ... And ive put full lenght MP3's on the Amiga .

They work :-)

160Kbps 44Khz :-)

And i even managed to Multitask too :-)

What player are you using?  Is it some secret, cause for some reason I'm not seeing it in this thread.   Unless it's the "Prayer" player mentioned...

[dougal]

The EQ in my AMPlifier does nothing either .. Same as you , i turn it on , adjust the spectrum but nothing happens to the music .

save2600 wrote:
@Dougal:

too bad old Paula Poundstone isn't up to the task of reproducing the full spectrum of the 16-bit/44.1khz file. What you're seeing are the specs of the file. This is why we need an AHI.device or the mp3@64 device!

Buy it now linky for use on your A1200's clockport!

BTW HELP! My AMPlifier from OS3.9's BB2(version 2.34)... I just noticed the EQ does not work! I turn it 'on', adjust the mail level and tweak the various frequencies. Nothing. What's going on here?

[dougal]

Hey Brian ,

I would post a How-to if i actually did anything LOL

Thing is i installed nothing , downloaded nothing and did nothing .

Just copied the MP3's to my HD and loaded them up .

Everything was default from my OS3.9 installation .

Only thing i did do was change the skin from the OS3.9 theme to the winamp syle theme and only because the OS3.9 skin look ugly due to my 16 color setting .

Just my $0.02, but instead of posting just a useless video how about a quick how-to for people...  I think people would have found that more useful...  IMHO.  But your video did spark a lot of discussion.