MP3 Player?

[projectarnold]

I have been out of the whole CS "scene" for about 3 months and when i was talking to a friend he mentioned something about a MP3 player you could use within a game on CS. is he a lying toerag or is it true?

 

[old.©h®°n°]

He's not lying.

I'm on windows 2000 and can quite easily listen to MP3's while playing ANY game, including Half-Life and MOD's. I just use Winamp.

I have a feeling that I tried this on Windows 98 a while back and the MP3's played but the game sounds diddn't and vice versa.

There may be a special MP3 player which does.

Try it

 

[NaveT]

The beta version 1.4 has a MP3 / CD player built in to it..

Why would you want to listen to music when you play cs? You wouldnt be able to hear footsteps etc....

 

[old.©h®°n°]

i find it helps me play
although im still crap at it its still funny

 

[old.Kez]

As long as one program is using DirectSound and the other is using ... something else, you should beable to play mp3s without hassle? :/

 

[projectarnold]

cheers everyone

I only want music for when i am pissing about and dont feel like like listening for every footstep

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

Playing Quake 3 to Daft Punk is a surreal experience.

 

[Mr Flibble]

I use Win98 and find that winamp sometimes overrides the sounds in HL i.e. diables them. The solution to this is easy, use media-player instead, as this works fine on win98. However make sure you leave it on the 'Media library' bit and not on the visualisations thingy cause that saps cpu/gfx power. It's just a shame media player is v.slow at loading lists of mp3s

 

[old.©h®°n°]

WMP is really crappy. Slow, uses loadsa resources and is just too bulky and awkward to use.
Winamp rules.
Upgrade 2 windows 2000 also