Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30

Re:Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 by mrpippy on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:18AM (#18714090)

MpegDec is able to play MP3s on 68040 Macs (although with lowered quality settings and maybe even only mono). An SE/30 with an accelerator might be capable at really low quality.

http://www.jwgdesign.com/mpegdec/about.htm

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Re:Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 by ahje on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:24AM (#18714380)

My Amiga managed to do half-quality mono with a 40 MHz 030 under the bonnet (Hippoplayer IIRC). The 16 MHz 030 in the SE/30 would most likely not be able to do that in real-time, assuming that decoder isn't much more efficient compared to the MP3 datatype I used for the Amiga.

EDIT: Checked the web site. They're using the same encoder

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Re:Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 by pcurve on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:25PM (#18717342)

I love thread like this where I can identify people's general age based on hardware they talk about. Ah daystar accelerator.

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Re:Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 by fencepost on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:29PM (#18720989)

"Intel Inboard 386" and "Above Board Six Pack Plus"

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