there's an MP3 player for 68k hardware but does not open. I read that there was a fixed version but it is no longer hosted. does anyone have a copy of this app that works?
Check out the MP3 thread that has good info about the different players:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=2691.0
I did. There was a user that fixed one that wasn't working out of the box, he recompiled it to work and hosted it but the link is broken.
I sent a PM to Brian to ask if he can re-post the code. Hopefully he'll get back to us; if not then maybe someone can follow his instructions and recompile the code.
Quote from: Nitro on May 17, 2019, 03:06:32 PMI sent a PM to Brian to ask if he can re-post the code. Hopefully he'll get back to us; if not then maybe someone can follow his instructions and recompile the code.
Good because I'm too much of a noob to do it myself. I've tried and failed miserably
Hello: I downloaded this one
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/ , i installs under previous , then bombs on launch , it may be because it is looking for shared libraries unavailable on Previous that would be on Black Hardware . Best Regards Rob Blessin
Quote from: Rob Blessin Black Hole on May 17, 2019, 07:59:28 PMHello: I downloaded this one http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/ , i installs under previous , then bombs on launch , it may be because it is looking for shared libraries unavailable on Previous that would be on Black Hardware . Best Regards Rob Blessin
If it's "mp3player1.1" it's original makefile was compiled for the Japanese version of NEXTSTEP by mistake. A user recompiled it with the makefile edited to {Japanese= No} and it worked for him.
It crashes on launch otherwise.
I don't have the knowhow to compile source code on Next.
Quote from: Rob Blessin Black Hole on May 18, 2019, 10:30:52 PMHello : Have you tried this one .... http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/OPENSTEP/Apps/Audio/mpap.1.0.README , just tried it looks like for Intel only !
Yes I'm
Looking for a player for my recently acquired 040 Cube
Brian responded and said that he's out of town at the moment, but will look for the files when he gets home in a few days.
Quote from: Nitro on May 20, 2019, 02:03:03 AMBrian responded and said that he's out of town at the moment, but will look for the files when he gets home in a few days.
It'll be nice to have this thing as a jukebox.
Ok, Brian (bkmoore) went out of his way to get this working, thanks Brian! He couldn't find the MP3Player files so he recompiled the app quad-fat on Previous. Once it's confirmed to work I'll write up a readme file giving Brian credit, and I'll mark the old app Japanese.
The new MP3Player app can be found in the Archives:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/MP3Player.NIHS.tar.gzSince MP3Player is a GUI frontend for nxmp3play, you'll need that too:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/nxmp3play.1.3.N.b.tar.gzNow that the MP3 patents have expired, I wonder if Frank Siegert would be willing to release the source code for the latest nxmp3play so that it could be compiled quad-fat too. Hmmmm.
Quote from: Nitro on May 24, 2019, 02:47:56 PMOk, Brian (bkmoore) went out of his way to get this working, thanks Brian! He couldn't find the MP3Player files so he recompiled the app quad-fat on Previous. Once it's confirmed to work I'll write up a readme file giving Brian credit, and I'll mark the old app Japanese.
The new MP3Player app can be found in the Archives:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/MP3Player.NIHS.tar.gz
Since MP3Player is a GUI frontend for nxmp3play, you'll need that too:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/nxmp3play.1.3.N.b.tar.gz
Now that the MP3 patents have expired, I wonder if Frank Siegert would be willing to release the source code for the latest nxmp3play so that it could be compiled quad-fat too. Hmmmm.
It works perfectly on my 040 cube! No next dimension board or anything:)
Quote from: Nitro on May 24, 2019, 02:47:56 PMOk, Brian (bkmoore) went out of his way to get this working, thanks Brian! He couldn't find the MP3Player files so he recompiled the app quad-fat on Previous. Once it's confirmed to work I'll write up a readme file giving Brian credit, and I'll mark the old app Japanese.
The new MP3Player app can be found in the Archives:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/MP3Player.NIHS.tar.gz
Since MP3Player is a GUI frontend for nxmp3play, you'll need that too:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/nxmp3play.1.3.N.b.tar.gz
Now that the MP3 patents have expired, I wonder if Frank Siegert would be willing to release the source code for the latest nxmp3play so that it could be compiled quad-fat too. Hmmmm.
Thanks for making this available! I turned my NeXTstation Color 25MHz 32MB black slab into a jukebox while simulataneously downloading my music via ftp and writing in another shell account via telnet. Machine didn't skip a beat until I opened a third terminal and moved it around! So cool!
Another MP3 player that worked quite well is XS3mod.
Several (older) versions can be found here:
https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/On a 25MHz slab XS3mod was not always fast enough to play the MP3, also sometimes the player crashed. I can not remember which version was the most stable, but you should give XS3mod a try.
Just realized that not all published versions are available on www.nextcomputers.org.
@Nitro shall I upload the missing files somewhere?
-r--r--r-- 1 1324032 2001-09-05 09:30 OggTools.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 925 2001-09-05 09:30 OggTools.1.0.README
-r--r--r-- 1 2348290 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3mod.1.5.1.HS.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 1987321 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3mod.1.5.1.NI.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 1294 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3mod.1.5.1.README
-r--r--r-- 1 2784639 2002-12-31 12:13 XS3mod.1.80.HS.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 2348088 2002-12-31 12:13 XS3mod.1.80.NI.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 1749 2002-12-31 12:13 XS3mod.1.80.README
-r--r--r-- 1 1298328 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3OggTools.1.5.NI.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 633 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3OggTools.1.5.README
Quote from: nuss on April 01, 2022, 10:24:08 AMAnother MP3 player that worked quite well is XS3mod.
Several (older) versions can be found here: https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/
On a 25MHz slab XS3mod was not always fast enough to play the MP3, also sometimes the player crashed. I can not remember which version was the most stable, but you should give XS3mod a try.
Just realized that not all published versions are available on www.nextcomputers.org.
@Nitro shall I upload the missing files somewhere?
-r--r--r-- 1 1324032 2001-09-05 09:30 OggTools.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 925 2001-09-05 09:30 OggTools.1.0.README
-r--r--r-- 1 2348290 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3mod.1.5.1.HS.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 1987321 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3mod.1.5.1.NI.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 1294 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3mod.1.5.1.README
-r--r--r-- 1 2784639 2002-12-31 12:13 XS3mod.1.80.HS.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 2348088 2002-12-31 12:13 XS3mod.1.80.NI.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 1749 2002-12-31 12:13 XS3mod.1.80.README
-r--r--r-- 1 1298328 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3OggTools.1.5.NI.b.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 633 2001-09-05 09:30 XS3OggTools.1.5.README
Thanks nuss, I'll send you a PM and we'll figure out how to get the files in the archives. 8)
The files are in the archives now. Thank you @nuss for submitting them. :)
https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/OggTools.1.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz
OggTools.1.0.README
XS3mod.1.5.1.HS.b.tar.gz
XS3mod.1.5.1.NI.b.tar.gz
XS3mod.1.5.1.README
XS3mod.1.80.HS.b.tar.gz
XS3mod.1.80.NI.b.tar.gz
XS3mod.1.80.README
XS3OggTools.1.5.NI.b.tar.gz
XS3OggTools.1.5.README
Thanks for this, XS3mod works great on my Sparcstation 4 under NS3.3 (mp3player -which works on my mono-slab- wouldn't play anything).
For 68020 and higher Macs there is MpegDec (
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mpegdec) which can play internet radio (PLS/M3U). Is there anything for NS that does that?
I made a small discovery regarding internet radio on NS (68k at least)...
nxmp3play (available in NeXTfiles/Audio (
https://nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/)) runs on 68k and I noticed that it supports playback from STDIN. So if you install curl (available as a package in Kb7sqiARCHIVE (
https://nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/Kb7sqiARCHIVE/)) you can do this:
curl -s http://www.radio-paralax.de:8000/ | ./nxmp3play -l STDINMost web streams are probably too heavy (bitrate-wise) for a 68k to decode fast enough, but I found a tool called racoder (
https://github.com/paulgalow/racoder) which can be run (on a modern computer in the network) in Docker and used to re-code any internet stream into a lower bitrate. Using that I was able to re-code radio paralax into 64k stream (pointing the above command into a local machine with an URL like this:
http://192.168.0.10:3000/radio-paralax) that plays much easier on a 040!
It sometimes stutters, but I think it's more up to the player not doing enough buffering.
Perhaps something similar could be used to stream into a temporary local MP3 file that XS3mod could be pointed at?