[SWLUG] tweaking for sound performance

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what, if any, tweaks might there be to improve sound performance on an old 
system with a slow processor and an isa soundcard, the card is an sb32awe 
which was quite reasonable in its day, the processor an amd 5x86 - unknown 
speed - , the machine has no other purpose but to play mp3s, the decoding of 
which i think is the reason it's being pushed just a little beyond its 
capabilities, i've tried to install the most basic debian i could plus what 
was required for alsa, i'm fairly convinced there isn't much i can do but i 
wouldn't want to give up until i've tried everything

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