RE: MP3 audio solutions - 2 ideas

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Point 2.

Getting more than 1 soundcard working in a machine is not a trivial task. $
soundcards in one machine would be a nightmare.

A 486 will not play MP3's. A P90 can play MP3 if doing NOTHING else.
Machines less than P200 will often stutter for no good reason.

How do you associate the MP3 file with a particular soundcard ?

You might be able to use something like the LP3 hardware player.
http://lp3music.com/

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Comm Jo [mailto:commjo2@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 October 2001 20:46
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] MP3 audio solutions - 2 ideas
>
>
> Hi
>
> I am looking to pipe audio round the home, and firstly I thought of CD
> jukebox - then I thought that MP3 would be cheaper.
>
> Here's 2 thoughts
>
> 1 - www.slimdevices.com are about to launch an ethernet MP3 player -
plug
> into a cat5 outlet on your PC network and access all the MP3s
> from there -
> it has 2xRCA outlets to go to an amplifier - voila - MP3 music in
> your room
> - cost is however $279 dollars plus shipping plus duty plus VAT
>
> 2 - from computer exchange I have seen used 486s for around £60
> incl monitor
> - how about putting 4 soundcards into a couple of these -
> networking them to
> the main PC server - and then piping the sound from the sound
> card to a room
> - ie output from each sound card is dedicated to a particluar
> room - cheap
> (£10 per sound card ?) - but how do you control the output in each
room ?
>
> Over to you clever boys now !!!!!!!
>
> Cheers
>
> Umar
>
> PS Has anyone thought of building a forum for this group - I subscribe
to
> www.thedvdforums.com and they have some great forum software -
> IMHO better
> than a mail list - any thoughts ?
>
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