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best way of using mp3 music

Ridcully · 2000-02-26T14:30:57

hi there! because many up to date games use mp3 music now, i was wondering how to implement this technique. as i see it, the biggest problem is the exessive cpu use of playback of mp3s. so i suppose you decode them before playing, right? but, should i decode the whole file, store it in memory or on the hd and load it in a streaming sound buffer? or should i better only decode the parts i need at the moment? thanks for any suggestions oh, and i wouldn''t complain if someone could point me to a URL where to get mp3 decompression source code

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Started by Ridcully February 22, 2000 02:35 PM

9 comments, last by Ridcully 24 years, 8 months ago

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February 26, 2000 02:30 PM

yes, decompression to wav, but on runtime, not before running the program. that wouldn''t make much sense because the advantage of much smaller filesize is invalid then..