You’ve just reminded me that I lived in a time when my desktop machine was not powerful enough to decode and play MP3s in real time. I had to decode to wav fil

You’ve just reminded me that I lived in a time when my desktop machine was not powerful enough to decode and play MP3s in real time. I had to decode to wav files and play those. This was in a time when far fewer instructions were accelerated on the cpu, and my cpu at the time was something like a 66MHz 486-dx2, and even the (Frauenhofer) mp3 codec wasn’t as optimized as it was later.