From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject: Re: Corruption of read-only files on program crash
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"Chris Underwood" <underwoodc AT logica DOT nospam DOT com> wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> >As Nate and Eli already pointed out, your program just may be
> >corrupting the disk cache. OTOH, even that alone shouldn't effect the
>
>
> It's possible, but extremely unlikely. Not all of the code is mine of
> course - there's the third party mp3 player library (Xaudio), which could
> potentially be doing nasty things.

There's another MPEG audio player library:
libamp (libamp) du du du du
It really whips the llama's ass.

> By the way, where can I get the Allegro mp3 decoder
> library from? I'm thinking of changing over, due to
> some dubious properties of the one I'm using.

Look on Google for libamp. You'll need an audioalg
patch if you want to use it on 2.951, or I could
upload a patched version to my web site.


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