Help needed to play mp3 with 060 and Paula

[mr_a500]

Just try Prayer2, the best mp3 player on 68k amigas.

Yes, Prayer2 is pretty good. Thanks for suggesting it. I read that it was made open source in 2002, but unfortunately the site containing the source is no longer active. I wish I knew how to create a "robe" for it. All the robes I found are pretty ugly. It also would have been nice if there was an option for buffering like with DiamondGUI.

Amazing noone suggested you to actually do the calibration!

I suggested 14 bit calibrated, but I guess nobody read it.

[meega]

@mr_a500

Yes, you did suggest using a 14bit calibrated mode, but you did not suggest actually doing the calibration. Your arrangements did seem rather involved, as well. Does all that work nicely on an 020 (presumably not 14MHz EC020)?

[Xanxi]

I can't find the tool Cybersound on aminet. Only on some links that appear to be broken.
Anyone got a link?

[mr_a500]

@Xanxi

I think I heard the "hairy tongue" of which you speak. Is it in the song "Sorry"? Even after converting the MP3 to 16 bit AIFF, the "hairy tongue" was still there so maybe it was the MP3. There is also a spot where it sounds like Madonna is singing with a couple marshmallows in her mouth. Besides that, the sound quality (after converting) was so good it gave me shivers.

@mr_a500

Yes, you did suggest using a 14bit calibrated mode, but you did not suggest actually doing the calibration. Your arrangements did seem rather involved, as well. Does all that work nicely on an 020 (presumably not 14MHz EC020)?

Ah, I see. Yes what I described does work nicely on an 020 (33Mhz). AmigaAMP is total crap on an 020 (have to turn off the Amiga to stop it because it doesn't respond!) and playing MP3s without buffering is like Max Headroom gone berserk. But playing MP3s with buffering gives good quality (if a bit of a pain waiting for buffer) and converted 16 bit AIFF with 14 bit calibrated plays perfectly with no skipping.

[Xanxi]

Which tool do you use to convert to AIFF please?

By the way, the hairy thong was more in the first song of this very album, hung up, but after all, maybe she simply eats marshmallows while in studio ;-)

[mr_a500]

Which tool do you use to convert to AIFF please?

I use mpega. I usually do "mpega -s -A -T ". This will convert to AIFF without playing, showing the time so you can see the progress. As I said, AIFF takes up huge disk space. (example: Madonna's "Sorry" takes up 49Mb!)

For me, I don't consider this much of a problem because I have a huge harddrive and Amiga software takes up very little space.

[Jose]

Cybersound can be found here:
http://it.aminet.net/disk/cdrom/14Bit_CDPlayer.lha

After the calibration is done save it and the program will create the necessary files in your env: dir automatically.
Let us know the results