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Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) Kamel Profile Has anyone tried using the Webplayer to play MP3s? I had Win98 on here, now running Mandrake 7.2 with the same problem. Linux detects the processor as 200mhz, but only at 69 bogomips!!! My P150 is faster! I've turned off all power management and all "extra" services/startup items. I currently have NO daemons running except the normal ones, and it still doesn't have enough power to decode/play an MP3. I've tried several different MP3 players as well, from freeamp to kmp3, even tried mp3blaster (command line mp3 player - though X was hogging too much proc). Also, I've upgraded the ram to 128mb. Still it just plays for a sec, pauses, plays, pauses. This POS has the processing power of a 486! So much for using it as a dedicated MP3 player... :( Anyone else tried it yet? 12-17-2000 19:25:45

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) Madtechy Profile My Webplayer is running Win98 and plays MP3 right off the DOC with Coolplayer with no problems at all.. I installed a USB zip drive and installed Winamp on it, made a directory on the Zip for MP3s and I run Winamp and the mp3s right off the zip.. It doesn't slow it down a bit.. It works great as a dedicated mp3 player, though I'd use external speakers :P "Take it apart! Make it better!" Madtech - DigitalDemise.com 12-17-2000 19:57:46

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) jeepguy Profile I use my Webplayer as an MP3 player for my kithen (using powered speakers). I have all of my MP3s stored on another computer, it plays just fine over the LAN. 12-17-2000 20:04:26

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) M_firmature Profile Mine works great with winamp and coolplayer... Lil delay on loading things but they play fine 12-17-2000 21:53:17

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) bubsdaddy Profile | Email Jeepguy, What usb lan adapter are you using? I have a d-link 650 and it keeps dying on any long file transfers. It works flawlessly on my I-Opener. I have also tried a powered USB hub and the webplayer won't even recognize the dlink net adapter if I plug it into the hub. 12-18-2000 09:08:32

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) jeepguy Profile bubsdaddy, I am using the SMC USB adapter, with the drivers already on the DOC. I have had problems with it losing the network (dying) as well but from what I have encountered, this happens only when there is a period of inactivity. I have not had the webplayer disconnect from the network when playing MP3s (yet). 12-18-2000 10:46:47

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) Madtechy Profile I am using a Linksys USB100TX with no.. I mean none, ziltch, zero.. problems at all.. No lost connections and my network is always 100%.. I use it for transfering and for internet sharing... "Take it apart! Make it better!" Madtech - DigitalDemise.com 12-18-2000 18:57:59

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) Madtechy Profile Here is a review of the Linksys I use... Review "Take it apart! Make it better!" Madtech - DigitalDemise.com 12-18-2000 18:59:45

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) Blitz Profile MP3 is pretty not so good. But I get 399.77 BogoMips under Linux. I recompiled my kernel w/ 2.4 and the BogoMips shot through the roof. mpg123 takes 65% to play Sweet Caroline at the console when compiled w/ march=i586 and 45% CPU when compiled w/ march=i486. I have since recompiled my kernel as a i486 and it dropped to 42%. XMMS also sounds well in X while doing other things. Still can't do a compile w/o skipping though. But there's definitly some tweaks you could do. 12-18-2000 20:34:15

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) Kamel Profile Blitz, what distro are you running? What kernel config did you use? I tried Mandrake 7.2, compiled in CX5530 support and used the i586 setting. I built very little as modules, took out everything except basically sound and chipset support. It helped a little, but only raised the mips to a little over 100. For some reason, I couldn't get it to boot with the Drak booter, but Lilo worked great. <shrug> It said the kernel was too large to fit in memory, so I made a bzImage, tried again, didn't work. Finally I ditched Drak and used Lilo.. boots fine. Still too slow to play MP3s though. Later... 12-20-2000 01:12:22

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) Blitz Profile I rolled my own. www.linuxfromscratch.org. Could use any distro though. One thing I did differently was used the sb16 driver instead of the cx5530.o (which I couldn't get working w/ 2.4.0test11). The big difference in BogoMips came when I went to 2.4 over 2.2. Cliff 12-20-2000 18:08:40

RE:Worthless as MP3 player? (modified 0 times) hijerry5 Profile I was wondering how the people who use this as an MP3 player were able to get the sound to work. All I can get is a strange noise in the speakers. hijerry 12-21-2000 16:13:30

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