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First post, by BinaryDemon

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Hi,

I'm curious to hear from people who have tested the dos-based versions of these programs, primarily interested in mp3 playback. Is one 'more compatible' with various mp3 types or basically same? Is one more efficient that the other? Like I see mpxplay lists DX4-100 as minimum cpu for realtime playback but I cant find a minimum cpu recommendation for open cubic player.

Personally I like the visual design of mpxplay a little more, just curious to hear what others think.

Thanks for any feedback!

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Reply 2 of 6, by BinaryDemon

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Well I was hoping for more input but I have my answer - Mpxplay has significantly better compatibility.

Open Cubic Player would only play about 40% of the random mp3's I threw at it, displaying file error for most.

Mpxplay is much more forgiving, basically 100% compatible with mp3's from a variety of sources, a variety of bitrates, ect.

I could probably run my mp3 collection thru some sort of batch converter to make them compatible with Open Cubic Player, but seriously no one wants to do that.

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Reply 3 of 6, by xjas

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IIRC the last DOS OCP (2.5.1) doesn't handle MP3 VBR modes very well; it should play most CBR files OK but might choke on extensions to the format like extra metadata. MP3 was still pretty new back when it was under active development. The advantage of OCP is it supports a ton of other stuff from tracker files to even SIDs and MIDIs (with GUS patches.)

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Reply 5 of 6, by dr_st

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BinaryDemon wrote:

Open Cubic Player would only play about 40% of the random mp3's I threw at it, displaying file error for most.

Mpxplay is much more forgiving, basically 100% compatible with mp3's from a variety of sources, a variety of bitrates, ect.

I can confirm similar observations (although I didn't compute the exact rates) on my random choice of MP3 files, and OpenCP 2.5.1; MPXPlay is fine.

I always saw OpenCP as the player for MIDI and MOD files, not MP3.

leileilol wrote:

Cubic hasn't played mods very well since 1.7 either and that's what it was primarily made for.

What are the problems introduced in 1.7?

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