Would I be able to play MP3s with an 030?

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It depends on how you do it.  i used a cobra '030 @40 mhz with 16 mb ram with a little cli script I found on aminet that brought up a requester to choose your mp3 and invoke lame to play it.  I don't remember the settings for lame, but it sounded fine in 4 channels 8 bit stereo on the 1084. I also had Executive going as well. Thing is if I had a music player instead of the script to do it the cpu load doubled and there was no perceived improvement in quality.

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With an apollo 68040 and 16 mbytes ram i remember i could play some mp3 mainly mono ones fine on my amiga.I remember i used a version of a program that looked like winamp.Nowdays with a 68040 amiga what are the options?Is there a more optimized version of programs to play mp3 ?Also since storage is unlimitied practically with large harddrives would i be bettter playing wav files on amiga than mp3 ?

I only want to setup to a ide to cf card interface a wb 3.1 installation.I dont want 3.9 or boing bangs,just a setup with mui,and latest sfs and whdload.Then on another ide channel maybe using idefix i could probably load a 160 gigabyte partition full with wav files right?

Well running amigaamp was your problem, cpu use would be double what it would need to be.

Not sure why people were having so many problems playing mp3's.  I did it at 28 khz with the '30 and it sounded sweet.  When I got my 68040 Apollo and overclocked it to 40 mhz, on productivity mode on my NEC 3d, I was ripping my CD collection at a 128 bit rate, and playing back in 14 bit stereo at 48 khz.  Sounded brilliant.  Especially played through my stereo amp.

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Don't analogue magnetic tapes get fungal growths?