[SWLUG] tweaking for sound performance

[Dick Porter]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 00:07, bascule wrote:
> 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,

Should be plenty of cpu power for mp3 there.  My old pentium-120 was
quite capable of playing mp3s on the sb32awe while it encoded others.

- Dick