Re: MP3 Player for the //gs (Dumb question right?)

["Liam Busey" <buseyl@yahoo.com>]

Lockar <lockar@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>    I know this is a dumb question but..
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>      Did any one write a MP3 player for the file://gs?  I was just
> wondering.. Would be neet to turn one of my file://gs's into an a MP3
> player.. LOL

The IIgs doesn't have the power to play MP3 files real time. However the
IIgs has no problem with WAV files. One of my ROM3 machines is setup for
this.

You'll want to use a more modern machine to do the conversion. Supertimer
wrote a nice article on how to do this a couple years ago. Google groups
should turn that up fairly easily. It invovled converting the MP3 to a WAV
file, resampling to frequency that would minimize noise from the DOC, and
saving as IIRC a 4bit mono WAV file. The WAV files can be played off a
harddrive with Oversampler. The resulting WAV files tend to be between 5 and
10MB for a typical length song, quite reasonable for most of us with a
harddrive less than 10 years old. This process is actually a lot easier than
it sounds.

Some may turn their nose up at the resulting quality of the WAV file. With
my non-audiofile ears I have trouble telling the difference between them and
the original MP3. Your mileage may very. If you're going to play them
through the internal speaker it's really a non-issue.

- Liam