.MP3 software, opinion needed....

[kgdb]

..ok, I am trying to get my older notebook to play .mp3. So far Winamp and a few of the other decent softwares are not all that successfull. My notebook is only a P90, 40 mb memory so I am certain what I need is a very very basic program that takes up extremly little resources and has only the very basics in system requirements. I want this program to do nothing but play .mp3, anyone have any ideas?? Sure would appreciate your advice....

kgdb

 

[Workin']

I also have a P90 40MB laptop and I haven't been able to find anything too great, either.

 

[kgdb]

hmmmm, well if I find something I will let you know. Hopefully someone here can shed some light.

kgdb

 

[yllus]

I've used Mpxplay in the past to play MP3 files from the DOS command line on a P-120 notebook. It lists the minimum system requirements as:

CPU: Intel 80486 or compatible with 66 Mhz frequency for MP2 and 80 Mhz frequency for MP3 files (recommended: 100mhz).
RAM: 4 MB
Soundcard:
- SB16 or compatible (SB AWE32/64, SB Live)
- ESS 1688-1888 chips
- WSS compatible cards (Crystal Sound, Yamaha, CMI8330)
- SB pro (DSP 1.x, 2.x, 3.x) or compatible
Operating system:
- MS-DOS 5.0 or higher
- Windows 95/98 (dos window)

You two are close enough. Tell us how it goes.

 

[kgdb]

Thanks alot! I will give that a try right away.

kgdb

 

[najar]

Here is one amazing player called CoolPlayer (free), very stingy with sys. resources. I was using it very comfortably on a Pentium 75 with 24MB of ram on a win98 OS. I came to love it so much that i still use it on my copermine sys. This baby has most of the feature one would desire in a mp3 player (with skins, equalizer and everything). Give it a try at http://www.daansystems.com/coolplayer/. Then let us know if you agree with my assessment.

 

[Ruben]

I'd be amazed if WinAmp lite coulnd't do the trick. Have you tried that one?

 

[kgdb]

Thanks guys, Mpxplay works but a tad confusing to operate. I will look into the others ones mentioned and post back. Thanks again.....


kgdb

 

[kgdb]

Ok guys, Mpxplayer works just fine but I find it hard to operate or understand is probably a better choice of words. I have yet to try CoolPlayer (will shortly). Winamp Lite seems to work fine also after playing with the output configuration alot.

kgdb

 

[Ladi]

Kjofol (also kjofol.org) is a decent mp3 player that has a small footprint.

~Ladi

 

[Shudder]

If it doesn't bother you, you can edit the output/decoder to do mono.. If you're listening on a laptop I'm sure you wouldn't mind anyway. That should give you enough cycles to play the songs. and DEFINITELY don't have any visualizations.. not the bars, not the flames, nothing.

 

[kgdb]

Well after trying many of the suggested players I would say that Winamp lite edited to the barebones worked not so bad. Problem is I guess it still eats up a fair amount of resources and the rest of the nnotebook comes to a grinding halt trying to access anything else while playing .mp3. Mpxplayer works very well but looks to me like you cannot do anything while Mpxplayer is on as it is dos based. I cant understand how some people play .mp3 on a 50 mhz 16mb memory systems!

kgdb

 

[Mytv]

Well as your last resort try here.
http://www.liquid2k.com/mtv/mpaudio.html
Hundreds of programs to choose.
By the way the old winamp like version .1 took up 80k of space and played all audio files.