winamp played my files without glitches too, but made my PC barely usable with nearly 100% cpu load (AMD K5-133 / playing 128kbs stereo mp3-s). On the other ha

winamp played my files without glitches too, but made my PC barely usable with nearly 100% cpu load (AMD K5-133 / playing 128kbs stereo mp3-s). On the other hand: mpg123 on Linux played the same files with less than 50% cpu load! ;)