best mp3 player?

X525 · Post by **X525** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:19 am

i was wonderin which mp3 player for the DC was the best?

thnkx for the help

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:29 am

To tell you the truth there isnt really a "best mp3 player" for dreamcast. They all work great. If I were you I would download all the sbi files and burn them to see which one you like best. Also you know dcdivx plays mp3's. So if you have any burned dcdivx movies just load it up, when it takes you to the menu just switch it with the mp3 disk.

Ronin · Post by **Ronin** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:37 am

why not just play them on your computer?

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:57 am

why not play many of the game ports and snes, nes, and divx movies on your computer? Because he wants to use the Dreamcast.

X525 · Post by **X525** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:02 am

cool...thnkx...will try em out....

Ronin wrote:why not just play them on your computer?

cuz i dont have a huge sound system on my comp...hehehe...

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:34 am

Also if you want, there was this holiday dreamcast release with great applications and homebrew games. I think 3 mp3 players are in there. If you want to download it click here for the web page.

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:48 am

In addition, don't forget that DreamSNES is also an mp3 player. It works pretty well, too.

CoasterKing · Post by **CoasterKing** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 10:00 am

My personal favourite is TO Eleven. This is because the whole user interface is displayed on the VMU. That way I can use my DC as an mp3 player through my sound system and no need for a TV. It's great!

X525 · Post by **X525** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:10 am

i burned DC Playa, but i dont like it much...is there one that displays the full title? and one that i can skim through the songs?

DeGamer · Post by **DeGamer** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 12:04 pm

All MP3 players for the DC work very well. The only thing I can think of that is mssing from some of them is that they don't suport VBR. But that doesn't bother since I usually just re-encode the songs to one single bitrate.

DC playa can dispaly long file names (in fact longer than any homebrew ap I've seen so far). Burn it in Mode 2 with Rockridge extensions. And to make it look even better put the correct information in the ID tags. Looks excellent this way. This is my fav mp3 player for the DC.

jjoepr · Post by **jjoepr** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:35 am

Hopefully there will also be a WMA player for dreamcast. But you can only hope.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:38 am

DeGamer wrote:All MP3 players for the DC work very well. The only thing I can think of that is mssing from some of them is that they don't suport VBR. But that doesn't bother since I usually just re-encode the songs to one single bitrate.

Re-encoding to a single bitrate is a very bad idea. And To11 supports VBR and MP3Pro, but I've heard DCPlaya supports neither.

djray · Post by **djray** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:29 pm

az_bont wrote: Re-encoding [vbr] to a single bitrate is a very bad idea.

really? i do this all the time b/c i'm a 192 traditionalist!

seriously though, it sounds exactly the same when i reencode them...

oh and...

jjoepr wrote:Hopefully there will also be a WMA player for dreamcast. But you can only hope.

nobody uses WMA!!

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:52 pm

WMA are to big, just use nero to encode it to mp3

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:53 pm

Warmachine wrote:WMA are to big, just use nero to encode it to mp3

WMAs are half the size of an MP3 of equal quality.

X525 · Post by **X525** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:56 am

DeGamer wrote: DC playa can dispaly long file names (in fact longer than any homebrew ap I've seen so far). Burn it in Mode 2 with Rockridge extensions.

how do i do that? i dled the Nero Image...i dont see Mode 2 or Rockridge Extensions anywhere...help please?

DeGamer · Post by **DeGamer** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:06 pm

az_bont wrote:Re-encoding to a single bitrate is a very bad idea.

How so?

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:09 pm

DeGamer wrote:
az_bont wrote:Re-encoding to a single bitrate is a very bad idea.
How so?

Recompression will always lose you quality.

DeGamer · Post by **DeGamer** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:19 pm

az_bont wrote:
DeGamer wrote:
az_bont wrote:Re-encoding to a single bitrate is a very bad idea.
How so?
Recompression will always lose you quality.

Oh that's right. I've also notice that while reencoding videos. Sucks

X525
Look at this image
here copy the same settings but if you want you can select the Mode 2 format.

Wasgo · Post by **Wasgo** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:12 am

CoasterKing wrote:My personal favourite is TO Eleven. This is because the whole user interface is displayed on the VMU. That way I can use my DC as an mp3 player through my sound system and no need for a TV. It's great!

I know. I just wish it would update with visualizations and cdg support.