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Pardon if this is a dumb question, but does this thing look like it could decode and play MP3 files? With a little power left over for a simple user interface?
by kdmoyers 7y ago
Pardon if this is a dumb question, but does this thing look like it could decode and play MP3 files? With a little power left over for a simple user interface? I'm interesting in making a specialized MP3 player of sorts.
- bradfitz 7y agoI think your toaster can probably decode & play MP3 files these days.
- aasasd 7y agoIn my consumer experience, playing mp3 or most other vaguely-popular formats takes negligible power compared to the display or modern app/UI logic.
- duskwuff 7y agoThis is entirely the wrong product for that. The SoC on the Raspberry Pi is a somewhat high-powered graphics processor; if all you need is MP3 decoding, your needs will be much better met by a mid-range microcontroller. There's even ASICs (like the VS1011) that'll do most of the work for you.