player UI shootout! An AMD Am5x86 at 120MHz with a Gravis Ultrasound PnP playing back a VBR (~254Kbps) 44.1KHz MP3 file at full quality.
The contenders: QuickView Pro version (dvpro), Digital Sound System 3.1 (dss) and MPXPlay 1.67 (mpx). The file: Astral Projection's "Bizarre Contact" from the album "Ten".
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QuickView Pro: file listing in the background and a simple status dialog in the foreground showing file information and the playback time.
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MPXPlay: File/directory browser below (mostly removed from the video), spectrum analyzer and various playback information on top.
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DSS: VU meters for left/right and playback information along with a lot of information about the file and the sound device.
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DSS: Spectrum analyzer, plus technical information as in the other video.