Lightest MP3 player software?

[Parrotheader]

I'll be going on vacation for a week and I'll be bringing my [/i]OLD[/i] laptop with me just to store digital photos and check my e-mail to make sure everything's fine at the office while I'm gone. It's an old Toshiba Satellite with a P120 and 24MB of RAM running Win98 SE. Yeah yeah, I know I need to upgrade the laptop but it was free and I didn't have a laptop so I couldn't turn it down. It's actually fine for checking e-mail and light web browsing which is all I usually use it for anyway.

Anyway, I'd like to bring a couple MP3 cds with me if possible, but I wanted to find the least system intensive software possible due to my obvious hardware limitations. I've actually been able to play MP3s a little bit on WMP, but I was wondering if you guys knew of any lightweight MP3 player software out there. The old school version of Winamp would be ideal, but it's nearly impossible find now. Any suggestions?

 

[Sid59]

winamp 2.91
foobar2000

either will work.

 

[Confused]

Old versions of Winamp

Don't use 2.91, it's the most bloated of all the 2.x series, and I seriously doubt you'll be wanting the video playback ability of it. I suggest you go for 2.81 🙂


Confused

 

[Parrotheader]

Thanks guys. I actually found an old 2.77 version on one of my systems at home. But now that I can choose from the whole Winamp buffet I'll take Confused's advice and try 2.81.

 

[EglsFly]

yea, Winamp 2.81 is good.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

#!/usr/bin/python

import ao, mad, sys

dsp = ao.AudioDevice('oss', bits=16, rate=44100)

for i in sys.argv[1:]:
mf = mad.MadFile(i)
while 1:
buffy = mf.read()
if buffy is None:
break
dev.play(buffy, len(buffy))