[plug] mp3 audio (was slowdown probs)

[John Knight]

I couldn't agree more mate, have you seen that OpenGL plugin with the 
vertical bars that's a square field and rotates? I've never seen a more 
beautiful and/or useful visualisation than this. I'm sorry all of you Winamp 
fans, but I like visualisations that actually give you some decent info 
about the sound frequencies utilised.

As for actual sound playback, I reckon that Alsa comes out "Top of the 
Pops".

John Knight

>
> > Try using xmms. It seems to be the fastest mp3 player avaliable.
> > But don't expect too much, a P100 doesn't have enough grunt to give
> > justice to mp3s
>
>On that note, the xmms that comes with 7.0 is shite. I have a celeron 500,
>384mb and XMMS chugged for some reason. Changing songs would take about 2
>seconds or so, and the change wasn't instantanous with the playlist.
>I had alook at all hte options, and it still ran slow as!
>I upgrade to v 1.2.5 and alas it runs damn well! :)
>Really really quickly, and it has some nice SDL plugins that you can use
>with it! :)
>I'd recommend upgrading to 1.2.5 to get the most out of it! :)
>
>Cya
>batesy
>
>


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