On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 LFessen106@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated Thu, 1 Mar 2001  4:48:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Peter C. Wallace" <pcw@mesanet.com> writes:
>
> <<     Not exactly HI-FI but its pretty amazing it works at all (@ approx
> 35% CPU)
>     Dont know if or how much the reduced sample rate (8K) affects CPU
> usage.
>
>     Big thanks and virtual beer to whoever got sound support on the
> Maxine working,
>
> Anyway, back to listening to Gygr for Flute, Viola and Harp while I
> work (in glorious 8 bit 8K sample rate mono)...
>
> Peter Wallace
>
>  >>
>
> OK, I am confused..  I didn't know that was working!  So, how did you do it and what program are you using?
> -Linc.
>
>
>

It _is_ on 1.5. I'm using the pmax mpg123 from the packages collection,
you need to specify the sample rate for mpg123:

mpg123 -m -r 8000 debussy__sonata_-_allegro_.mp3

The internal speaker is horrible, but with decent external amplified
speaker it sounds ok (about like AM radio)


Peter Wallace