AmiTunes 0.5

[AmigaHeretic]

Sure, they take up twice as much space as MP3s

I my experience WAVs take up about 10 times as much space as an MP3s.  ie. a 40MB WAV = 4MB mp3.

But storage being cheap these days it might not matter to much.  That and it would be cool use for an A600!

[AmigaHeretic]

I've been ripping all my CDs to WAVs using a Linux program called Sound Juicer. It's so easy to use for this task, and I have it set to record the wavs at 22050Hz 16bit 2-channels. Each CD ends up being around 300-400MB, and these are pretty long CDs (classical music and film scores mostly). They play perfectly through SongPlayer and Play16 on my A1200, but I can't find any programs that will play them on the A600. I have tried Play16 1.8 (the last 68000 version) but it crashes ramlib and won't start, so I can't test how well they play on the 68000.

Does anyone know of a program that can stream WAVs on a 68000 CPU?

Hmmm...  I know Sound Machine will play WAVs on 68000 and it even runs on KS1.2 systems if you have req.library installed.

BUT... I don't think it will stream it off the HD.  I shouldn't say I don't think as I have no idea, but it's pretty old.  So you would need a lot of RAM if it won't stream.  Enough RAM to fit the file into, but it will do 40MB+ files.  

http://de4.aminet.net/mus/edit/SoundMachine.lha


There is also HDPlay (not the HD Play that does recording and all that, I think this one is older)  
http://aminet.net/package/mus/play/HDPlay
http://aminet.net/mus/play/HDPlay.lha

It will stream WAVs on 68000, but it will only play 8bit waves not 16bit.  And if you going to convert them to 8bit well then you might as well just convert them to 8SVX.


I like this idea though.  An A600 music playing machine.  Here in the US A600 are expensive.  Infact I'd probably trade my A3000 for a nice A600.  


Yeah, I played some 16bit 44KHZ waves through Paula (just 8bit mode not 14bit) and it sounds really good.