Anybody interested in PIC based mp3 players check:
http://mp3ar.com

> > 3)Does anyone know if there is an "easy"(pic related) way to decode and
> > playback an mp3?  I have looked in the archives but keep getting a
> > search result of >600 hits!
>
> I think you're barking up the wrong tree here a bit. PICs are not meant to
> be number crunchers - and decoding an MP3 in real-time takes quite a lot of
> oomph.
>
> I'm doing a portable MP3 player of my own, which is controlled by a PIC
> 16F874. It's interfaced to a Micronas MAS3507D MP3 decoder
> (http://www.micronas.com I think), that does all the hard work and the PIC
> just keeps it in check, while supplying it with data.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Kieran
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