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Re: Sound question



"Rich J." <aiiadict@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I don't know how much CPU power you need to play MP3s

The overhead for playing (decoding) them is fairly low.  The overhead for
encoding them is tremendous.  Whether a "real" // gs could keep up with
playing them isn't clear to me though.  You certainly wouldn't want one
trying to encode one though.