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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> "JS" == Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:
> 
> JS> So, after all this talk about various mp3 encoders, what are most
> JS> people here using as their preferred mp3 decoder/players?
> 
> Woo-jae Jung's splay.  Simple and direct.

I am using amp, which is significantly faster than splay, and somewhat
faster than mpg123.

amp test.mp3	2.61s user 0.21s system 19% cpu 14.609 total
mpg123 test.mp3 2.86s user 0.06s system 19% cpu 14.970 total
splay test.mp3  3.97s user 0.05s system 27% cpu 14.657 total

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