Re: Recode to Play MP3?

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On May 9, 10:19 am, "Simon D. Williams" <b...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve ][ wrote:
>
> > There was an app for 68k Macs that would play mp3s, it would first
> > recode them to AIFF and buffer them and play them (or replay from
> > bufer).
>
> > Just wondering, from a technical standpoint by Those Who Know (TM),
> > what it would take to do anything similar on the IIGS. I was thinking
> > that recoding would be done on a Mac or PC and then copied over to the
> > IIGS, but I don't know if/what the platform could handle.
>
> My non-technical opinion is that MpegDec works tolerably on a 33Mhz 68040,
> which is miles ahead of the IIgs... there was, however, a streaming audio
> demo for the IIgs, but I don't recall it's name. I played from an
> mp3-sized file, though I don't know if it was compressed or just a lo-fi
> wave file.
> -s
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On those old machines, you're better off trying to play mods.  ;-)
Way easier on the hardware.  One of these days, I'm going to see if
there's a feasible way to convert a segment of digital audio to a
stream of AY register commands to pump thru an unsuspecting
mockingboard.  But first I have to have a cycle-accurate emulation of
the mockingboard accounting for the latency of a 6522 chip before I
can accurately experiment with that.  If I do get around to
implementing that sort of thing, you'll likely see it surface
here...   http://sourceforge.net/projects/java-ace  I have the AY chip
part working, just haven't tied in the 6522 yet.  But I have other
issues to worry about first.  ;-)

-B