That is a common problem in Windows 9x with Mp3 and Surfing even with my
box at home. Even with a Duel (I Know 95 can't duel) PIII-500 and 512MB of
RAM, it still doesn't clonk. WinNT works fine [I have 98 for games, NT for
damed ORacle8) and LINUX is amazing.
any way.
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Bill Munden wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 8:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Playing Mp3's...
>
>
> > How fast of a machine do you have?
>
> When I first started playing Mp3's on my machine, it was a Pentium 166 with
> 80 megs of RAM. Now it's a PIII 450 with 128 m/RAM. Both machines gave me
> the same problem. When I upgraded to the PIII 450, I expected the problem
> to go away but it didn't.
>
> -Bill
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > >%_I just had to make a post about this because Linux impressed me when
> it comes to playing Mp3's on my computer. I used to listen to them in Win98
> when I was surfing the Internet and everytime I changed to a new web page,
> there seemed to be a loss of 'processing power' taken away from the Mp3
> player I was using (Winamp). This was causing the music to skip or come to
> a halt momentarily and then start playing again. I remember that someone
> else was having the same problem and had enquired about it. They had
> recieved a reply that explained how Win9x wasn't able to deal with the two
> tasks (web browsing and Mp3 song being played) very well and that was the
> reason for the poor playback of. Anyhow, I have been listening to Mp3's
> inside of Mandrake 6.1 and browsing the web without the music being
> interrupted at all. I like that.:)
> > >
> > > -Bill
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> > Vic
> > Student Of Linux
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