Yeah, I seem to remember there was that brief time period where my PC could barely play MP3s and I used to treat them like zip archives -- rendering them back o

Yeah, I seem to remember there was that brief time period where my PC could barely play MP3s and I used to treat them like zip archives -- rendering them back out to WAV files to play them back. I think you're right and that was around the 486 DX2, DX4, Pentium transitional time period.