Most decent quality soundcards will play MP3s well, however, if you only have an old 8-bit sound card, then you may have trouble playing 16-bit MP3s.

There are a number of MP3 players out there, from software that runs on your computer to hand-held portable MP3 players. You will find screenshots and download links from the MP3 Players section of Mp3 Raid.

No, we play in publicly viewable posts in forums; similar to an e-mail game in some respects. If you have access to the Internet and a web browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.), you can play. It's not even necessary to log in from the same computer each time.

Copy your own mp3 music into the SND\User folder of THE SETTLERS IV. To play the tunes of your choice, you should then open the ‘Sound’ menu under ‘Options’ in the game. If you then click on the “Play user’s music” option, your selections will be played in a random order.

This is one of the major features of Broadcaster 3.0. Simply drag and drop files or whole folders of MP3s into the Playlist. Find out how here. Tip: Make sure the MP3s are good quality or it will be reflected in your broadcast!

No, there is no material offered for downloading because we have a license to webcast only. To offer downloads we would have to get permission or an agreement with the label or artist representing a specific track. However we did team up with Trackitdown who does that sort of stuff, and many tracks can be bought through download.di.fm, our new download store.

The soundcard needs to support bi-directional use i.e. to be able to record and playback at the same time. Most modern and professional soundcards are able to do this. Ask us for sound card recommendations - we sell studio quality sound cards to go with our product costing only about £160 ($245 or €250)

Answer: No. Some companies publish computer programs to help you play their RPGs. But most companies aren't currently doing this, and none of them require you to buy computer programs to play GM-moderated RPGs.

No. Vanilla CTF will run on all the latest versions of Quake2 (the current one being v3.20). The only rule: you must be running the same version as the server. (If you have the latest version of Q2 installed, that's probably good enough.)

Yes. You will need the latest Macromedia Flash plugin installed in your browser which you can find here. Please be aware that the flash plugin now comes with the option of installing Yahoo Toolbar by default. If you do not wish to install the Yahoo toolbar please unselect it before continuing with the installation.

Before I talk about this, you should know: In the United States and some other countries, you may have to pay patent royalties to use MP3 players or encoders. However, for home users, there is no legal problem with MP3 players. (Thanks to Doug McClean for clearing that up for me!) With that said, the plugins for these things are usually in the rpm.livna.org repository. You install a different package depending on which Fedora MP3 player you want to use.

Quite a few Linux distributions do not include MP3 playback software due to the patent situation of the MP3 format. These patent issues do not affect the user directly, so most distributions make it fairly easy to install MP3 support over the Internet after the installation, making it possible to legally play MP3 files, for non-commercial use. DVDs, on the other hand, are a more difficult situation. Most, if not all, DVDs are encrypted using a system called "CSS".

Make sure you are at the latest firmware version. (at the time of writing v32) Copy and paste your MP3 files to the card. You do not need to use any conversion software, just use Windows Explorer to copy and paste just as you would any file. It is suggested that you create a folder on your media card called Music and put them in there. You can create subfolders as needed since the software allows you to navigate folders.

No. The WOW Thing is an external processor. To achieve the maximum benefit of the WOW Thing, it is recommended that you disable any 3D processors that may be installed on your soundcard.

That is out of the realm of this faq, but info can be found in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.* hierarchy.

You may also use our program. When the soundcard driver is loading, it loads the MIDI wavetable bank to the RAM. It allocates about 4MB memory for MIDI playback. With using our program you can disable the bank loading and free 4MB memory space, so your performance may increase. The program can also control DirectSound and DirectSound3D voices.

Yes. Like most modern soundcards, there is no amplifier on the card itself (because of the audio quality). This means that you need active powered speakers to use the card properly. Passive speakers without an amplifier will not give you enough output volume. Yes, MD works with 44.1kHz.

MP3s are digital audio files that maintain their original sound quality while keeping a smaller file size. But on a 56K modem, most MP3s can download in just a few minutes (rather than hours!). MP3s are widely recognized as the most popular format for storing and listening to music on the on the internet.