On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 05:55:19PM -0400, Robert Gash wrote:
> I know that is sounds like a really stupid idea, but I recently came
> across a Sparc Classic (40mhz, 16mb RAM, 200mb HD) for free, and seeing as
> it has some sort of audio output, I got the crazy notion that I might be
> able to actually use it as a sort of "radio-reciever" for MP3 streams (IE-
> no mp3's stored on the HD anywhere), seeing as I don't really have any
> other use for it.
> 
> Unfortunately, my knowledge of sox (which I think is needed to convert
> into the proper sunaudio format) and how to play sounds on sun equipment
> is very limited.  Has anyone else been crazy enough to try this and
> actually succeed on any of the lower-end Sun hardware?  If you have, I'd
> really apperciate some advice on how you did it.
mpg123 -r 8000 -m <filename> does it for me on my (now) headless SparcSLC
(20MHz, CPU usage ~90% when playing mp3s).

Sounds somewhat rude of course, but I don't expect more from a ~4cm speaker
driven by 8kHz/8Bit µlaw/mono hardware :-)
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