Hardware MP3 decoder?

[Oli_hd]

The hardware mp3 players skip the Amigas sound system so they dont use ahi drivers. (they use mpeg.library)

Now if you have a clockport available (say on a Zorro card) then Amigakit sells a clockport mp3 decoder which you could connect to the audio input on your PCI soundcard. Thats probably best. You could use a parallel port one like the MAS player but it wouldnt be as good CPU resource wise as a clockport unit I wouldnt think.

Zorro wise the only card is the Delfina sound card but as you have a PCI sound card I would stick with that and use one of the above cards tbh.

[Oli_hd]

I have a Deneb card and I believe that has a clockport...so that would probably be the easiest solution?

Yep, I would say its the best solution.

a Delfina is a sound card with hardware mp3 decoding. AHI drivers exist for a Delfina and all sound, including Paula and mp3 player output is funneled through the Delfina

The Delfina has AHI drivers cause its a sound card, they dont do any MP3 decoding, for that you use the Delfina.library, which is basically treated like the mpeg.library.
It also "funnels" the paula sound only because you hook a wire to the line input from Paula, you can do the same to your PCI soundcard.

Your PCI soundcard will always be better than the Delfina so stick with that.