Looking for OS9 music player

[Foamcow]

We have an old G3 iMac sitting in the corner of our studio. We use it as a music system.
Problem is, its running OS9 and iTunes development for OS9 stopped a long while back. The version we have falls short of what we need.

Can anyone recommend a decent music player, along the lines of Winamp, that works with OS9?

Ideally we want it to be able to automatically scan a directory and list the MP3 files that are in it. So when we add to the directory we don't have to manually import the files into the playlist.

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[jmgalvin]

Go to Versiontracker.com and search under mac Classic for Music or music player.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[jimoblak]

Google for 'MacAMP 1.0b7' for leads.

There was more than one MacAmp but my feeble memory leads me to believe that this one behaved like WinAmp and even came with a WinAmp classic skin.

 

[Foamcow]

Many thanks

As it happens I think we might install OSX on it and see how well it performs. Your suggestions will provide a fall back option though.

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[ObviousTroll]

How old is your g3? It will probably run OSX...

 

[Foamcow]

It's pretty old.
But it seems to run OSX and iTunes with no problems.

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[DesperateHusband]

I have a lot of iMac G3 350-450 Mhz computers running OS 10.3 just fine. I up graded their memory to 512 MB (rather cheap to do) and a 20 Gig IDE Drive and they run Word Processing (Office X for Mac), iTunes, iMovie, Firefox, Safari, IE for Mac all just fine. If you want to run Adobe Photoshop, Quark etc they run, but are very slow compared to today's computers.

 

[Foamcow]

Yes, I've been running it for a while now and it's been fine.
All it does it play music anyway.

I have started noticing that I get occassional stutters when there is a spike in network activity (the MP3s are stored on an Xserve). Not a problem but it's something that didn't happen with OS9.

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[Hammerbhoy]

Myself and a couple of work colleagues are using itunes on old G3s. They are all running System X without any problems. We purchased new 120 gig Maxtor hard drives and used the existing 10 gig drive as a slave to increase the amount of mp3s that can be stored. We all have 256mb of ram which seems to be adequate.

 

[RegistrationMark]

We just put an old boombox on top of the monitor of our G3.
As long as we're keeping antiques and all.
Mark