What is the best MP3 player for the Amiga computer?

[BoingBoss]

Hi lorddef,

Yep they'll s till be around kicking the butts of 14Mhz 386's... thats about it.

Yea, but at least those 386 butts will be kicked real good !   :-D

[PMC]

BoingBoss wrote:

Put it this way, for the same money I could have either a like new 1964 Pontiac GTO with low miles or a modern-day new piece of crap car or truck.  The first is better built, gets the job done, and will last for decades.  The second is a low quality, over-priced piece of crap that the average person is stupid enough to buy.  Sure, it drives nice but for how long, and will it get the chics or outrun your average cop car?  Guess which one I plumped for"?   :-D

Uh oh, BoingBoss here is out cruising the streets for chicks and burning off cop cars in a '64 GTO...  Don't suppose you've painted a rebel flag on the roof have you?

Oh, and aren't all Amiga's prior to the AGA series all built without utilising surface mount technology?  Excuse my ignorance here, but I thought that surface mounting components made for lower production costs AND greater reliability?  

I should probably know better than to argue but it's a point I'm unclear on.

[miles]

PMC wrote:
Uh oh, BoingBoss here is out cruising the streets for chicks and burning off cop cars in a '64 GTO...  Don't suppose you've painted a rebel flag on the roof have you?

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: Hahahaha :-)

 

Oh, and aren't all Amiga's prior to the AGA series all built without utilising surface mount technology?  Excuse my ignorance here, but I thought that surface mounting components made for lower production costs AND greater reliability?  

Commodore used crappy cheap sockets on the older Amigas too, surfacemount is better, but you need to have the gear to replace them if something does go wrong or an upgrade is needed eg. Buster upgrades.

I should probably know better than to argue but it's a point I'm unclear on.

 :-o

[stefcep]

I found the best sounding and least cpu-intensive (taking about 22% of cpu time) way to play mp3 on my 68060 through Paula was to use MPEGA 3.5 with the integer mpega library in LIBS:  with AHI installed and choosing a non-video screen mode i can playback in 14 bit in real time and it sounds great.  

[prowler]

You asked if the sound card you had would help (AD516). I have one of those, whilst it will help with audio quality, it does not help with CPU load like the Delfina would. And yes, there is a AHI driver for it on AmiNet.

[Daedalus]

Believe me when I tell you this: Long after you guys computers are dead, my Commodore 64 / 128D, Atari ST, and Amiga computers will continue to kick some PC but!  

Yeah, it's true, you know... My Amiga really gives my 486DX2-100 a run for its money  :-P  :lol: