[DocWest]

Okay, this is what I want to do:
I want to play games.
I want to listen to MP3's.

I want to do them at the same time.
Using Soundjam and playing games, it will finish the current song but wont go onto the next until you pause the game.
Same deal with Audion.

Is there another application that can play them in the background?
How about that MP3Strip? Anyone know if that works?

[Cipher13]

Being the lazy person I am, I'd just export it as one long track...
That an option?
Open the mp3's in QT Pro, select all, copy, paste into a new document. Repeat. Then export to AIFF (it'll be a big file). Then encode to mp3.

Cipher13

Cipher's suggestion doesn't sound very elegant, but it would work, except there's no need to re-encode.

Just use QT Player Pro to open the tracks, then cut & paste them end to end, then use QT Player to play the list. Versions 4.1 and later handle MP3s just like any other media, variable bit-rate too.

Why waste time? (Something Cipher seems to do a lot of judging by the number of posts he's made!)

I haven't tried it while playing a game, but why wouldn't iTunes work? I always have it playing in the background when I am working or on the internet and it goes through my whole library of over 500 songs. That is, if I actually worked that long. That would be over 24 hours of music. I wouldn't want to splice and encode that thing.

[DocWest]

Thanks for the suggestions, people.

I never thought of using one track. hmm it might just work (wish I had more hard drive space though)

It seems when playing games (or any other applications) that take over the whole screen, it kind of suspends everything in the background.
I tried using different apps, including MP3 Strip, but that is in the control strip and the whole control strip suspends too.
I also tried jacking up the CPU priority of the mp3 players (using peekaboo), but that didn't work either.

Maybe OS X might fix this problem with its better multitasking abilities.

but anyway, I'll just use one long track. Thanks Cipher.

[Cipher13]

No problem dude
You're right, once the song has finished playing (which, even in the event of a hard crash, an mp3 may keep playing), it won't execute the next commands. Nor will it recieve them until the game releases its hold on everything.

Tuna: its not wasting time if you're helping people, or having fun pissing them off (those guys in the OSX forum get riled so easily ). LOL.

Cipher13

[DocWest]

WooHoo!!

it doesn't matter about hard drive space.
you copy and paste the songs and then save as... save normally (allowing dependencies)
it only takes up like 20k for a whole cd. but it still manages to go to the next song while playing games and stuff.

this kicks ass.