According to collver@linuxfreemail.com:
>
>Since you mentioned performance, I'll throw in my two cents.  Using mpg123
>from pkgsrc I can listen to my mp3's and do other things like use netscape
>and compile stuff.  madplay skips even when I am doing nothing else.  I
>have an Intel p120 with 48megs of memory at the moment.
>

<AOL>
me too
</AOL>

Except I use xamp, which works fine as long as I don't try compiling.
With madplay the sound is chopped (it _sounds_ like I get a bit of
music followed by a short silence and then some more music, repeat
until I get sick of it) all the time and the cpu is up at 100%

BTW xamp also handles 8bit sound cards - the quality is not as good
(duh) but it you only have a laptop with 8bit sound then it is better
than listening to the conversations on the train, believe me -
anything is better than that.

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