Actually, I also use my MP790 to play mp3s ... its a 168MHz cpu. No problems 
at all. I notice a difference between using the built-in WinMedia and 3rd 
party mp3 players though. WinMedia didnt seem to implement much of a buffer, 
so when u switch apps, it stutters!! many 3rd party players implement 
buffering properly, so its no problem at all. Other than that, the 
MobilePros, IMO works just fine with mp3s.

-Robin

"Matthew Orgass" <darkstar@city-net.com> wrote in message 
news:Pine.BSF.4.51.0502032107410.48899@vegeta.city-net.com...
> On 2005-02-03 acruhl@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> My Mobilepro 880 has a USB port, so I'm fairly interested in trying to
>> get a USB sound card that will work. Has anyone used one? Even on
>> another port? It would be beyond cool to listen to music on this thing
>> while doing other stuff.
>
>  I have a iMic that works well on i386 and with my Ratoc USB CF driver on
> my Clio from a .wav file for the part of the file that is already in
> memory.  With ohci on the mobilepro it should work fine for wav files and
> some network audio protocols, but the system might not be fast enough to
> play mp3s.
>
> Matthew Orgass
> darkstar@city-net.com
>
>