In the long run you will probably spend less money and time by
purchasing a portable MP3 player and simply leaving it hooked up to
the computer all the time.

-Adam

On 10/30/05, CSB <csb_cbw@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>   I have an old(er) computer, that has trouble playing mp3 files and doing
> other stuff at the same time (especially games, etc.) I tried various
> players, but they all use 10-20% CPU power. That is a lot. So, I had the
> idea of having a hardware decoder inside the PC, that would do all the
> work. Luckily, I have unused ISA slots on my motherboard. Plus, I have
> a free stereo sound input on my soundcard!
>
> So, I thought I might put an mp3 decoder chip, some RAM (probably DRAM,
> since it's so cheap, and I have a few MB lying around here and there),
> and some programmable logic to be the glue between the bus, the decoder
> and the memory bank. Then, I would have a small piece of software that
> would retrieve chunks of mp3 files, buffer them on the decoder card, and
> control things such as play, pause, next, prev., etc.
>
> However, this would involve quite a lot of work. I tried to find similar
> projects on the net, but I have found none. I did find hundreds of 'first
> ever portable mp3 player!!!', but they are all based on memory devices
> or IDE drives. That is not what I am looking for. Surprisingly, even the
> PICLIST archive turned up nothing.
>
> Has anyone heard of such a thing?
>
>
> Christian
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