My problem: I want to use my IBM ThinkPad 380D for playing some MP3 and donīt want to use windows since it sucks out power and ram. Damp and Mpxplayer seemed to be a god choice but whatever I trie it only sounds bad. Extremly noise and 8-bit like. I ran developer mode and it said SBpro in 22720Hz. It's still a 16bit soundcard in there! I tried to change the ini file of both programs but it want help. Please help me, what to do? Convert to Linux?

it could be a hardware issue. do other sound formats sound as bad? i use this player. http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/download/dss.zip

Hi Dagul! Thanks for replying! Well, I've just had some help to run Linux instead but it still sounds noisy, 8-bit like or if it's the samplerate that's bad. Damp said 22,720KHz... Is it possible that the emulated version of Soundblaster made by this Crystal 4232c integrated soundcard is just 8-bit och what could it be? I've tried to find Crystal supported drivers for dos but then Damp and Mpxplayer crasches beoynd recover else than a hard cold boot. Why is it that it all works god in windows?!! The lack of 32bit support in dos? Please any ideas? (Haven't tried dss yet but my guess is that it will work as bad to.) Have'nt tried any other file types but I will and gets back with the result a.s.a.p!

Like many other cards your soundcard is not truly Soundblaster compatible, which gives problems in DOS applications that require a SoundBlaster. Unless you can find a DOS program that natively supports your soundcard or recognises it as a true 44 Khz 16 bit Soundblaster you are stuck to 22 KHz sound. However the specifications of your machine are good enough to play MP3īs in both Windows 3.1x and 9x. To do this try some good players which use less resources like Audio Active or Winplay (these players are available for both 3.1x and 9x) I can play MP3īs in 16 bit 44 Khz Stereo quality on a 486 DX 120 Mhz in Windows 3.1x......

Well, that seems to be a solution but another question comes to mind, is it possible to run win311 in some kind of "low" mode, as you've just boot the core, the needed drivers and the player, whant to slim down the system as much as possible. But that might also be a dissadvantage I'd guess? Is there some how to just using the windows drivers in dos?(Strightened version of the question i just wrote. Some bad spelling in my replies but I hope you all can read it anyway.)

To my knowledge thereīs not other GUI than Windows 3.1x that can run almost all usefull programs with only 4 Mb of RAM. The GUI itself with some basic applications runs even well with 1 Mb memory. So the question is: how low do you wanna go? ;-) I see you already have checked the 3.1 forum, which is a good place for support for this OS/GUI.....

Ok, I've tried out Win 3.1 with Winplayer that works ok, but it has'nt got LCD support and Damp sounds the same it did as in plain DOS. What do I do now? The system is now both slim an d quick but there are lack of potetial programs. I've been searching the net but no player seemes to have that extra support I'll need.