ActiveX OCX to play MP3 , MP2 , MP1 , MPEG-2.0 ,MPEG-2.5 and wav PCM media files

ActiveX OCX to play MP3 files , this control is using a high-quality MPEG audio decoder , and it is capable of playing layer I , II and III , has support also to MPEG 2.0 and MPEG 2.5 , it has a spectrum analyzer , equalizer and the decoder engine is optimized for speed when running on new processors What is new in the version 2.7.3 (Wed Aug 10 17:20:51 2005): Added two surround like effects , fixed some minor bugs What is new in the version 2.7.1 (25/Mar/2005 17:22): Fixed a minor problem in the smartbuffer method What is new in the version 2.7.0 (18/Mar/2005 18:20): Modified the report of the playback position , now it is as accurate as 100 milliseconds , it was modified by user request , modified the smart buffer method , indeed most portions was completely redesigned , added also support to enlarging and shrinking files (this means files that have their size modified during playback ,like adding or removing id3 tags or downloading a file from internet while playing ) , notice that it is supported in both smart buffer mode and old buffer mode , there is no way to make the memory playback mode to support it beause after a file is loaded to the memory it don t have any other access to the file unless you play it again , , fixed a bug in the ID3 v2 tag support , if the mp3 file has invalid ID3 v2 tag information the control may just crash , now the control will first validate the information and if it is inside some predefined limits it will work if not then it will just consider the ID3 v2 information invalid , notice that this problem affect also Winamp , the homepage has a damaged mp3 file that trigger the problem in the mp3 ocx 2.6.2 and Winamp , and you need to be aware that when the new wave effects change the number of samples then the time reported will not be the correct playback position