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JCKnife:
I'm running Mamewah with several different emulators.

There are a few games that I'd like to run my own soundtrack in the background while playing.

What's a good command-line MP3 player that will take up minimum resources while playing in the background?

joe jet:
I believe that mamewah itself can do this.   I guess if you only want to play the soundtrack in certain games you would need to create a separate "emulator" (mame2?) if you did not want the music in all mame games.  Mamewah setup that i use has a check mark for each emulator to play music during play.

JCKnife:
Really? I knew it could play music in the FE menu but not during the game. I'll look into it. I believe I'm on ver. 1.61

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: JCKnife on February 20, 2006, 09:26:07 am ---I'm running Mamewah with several different emulators.

There are a few games that I'd like to run my own soundtrack in the background while playing.

What's a good command-line MP3 player that will take up minimum resources while playing in the background?

--- End quote ---

Resources (memory and processor wise) isn't the issue that causes bad performance when playing a mp3 and a game at the same time.  The limitations of most sound cards are.  You only have a limited number of channels when playing back audio.  Every time you add another channel, the audio quality of all channels is degraded to compensate for the loss of throughput.  A more important issue is that sound soruces produced from multiple applications "confuse" the mixer.  You'll notice the volume of one of the sources dramatically drop while the other is playing.  To adjust that source often makes the already loud source rise as well.  


Long story short, in general, this is a bad idea all around.  Avoid doing such things.  

JCKnife:
I tried it last night, running Windows Media Player (Chemical Brothers) underneath ePSXe playing Tempest X. Music sounded great, game sounded great, no volume issues...

So I'm still looking for a command-line MP3 player. Google has turned up a couple but they're not working for me.

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