[jandrese]

I played MP3 files in realtime on my old Pentium 75 with 16MB of RAM with plenty of CPU and memory to spare. This thing is way more powerful than you need for simple music playback. Getting audio out however may be a challenge, maybe USB speakers?

[dtech]

MP3 already made such a PC sweat though. I doubt it could play 256 kbit AAC, and forget about HE-AAC or FLAC.

[jandrese]

This chip is clocked over 7 times higher than my old Pentium, and it's not like the Pentium was massively super scaler. I'm not sure how the IPC compares, but I can't imagine that ARM is that much worse than a mid-90s Intel chip.

[anthk]

FLAC would be easier, maybe. But at minimum it should be played on a MMX Pentium.

[numpad0]

I always figured “Multi-Media eXtension” is just a marketing fluff but 20 years later here we are.

[dtech]

I doubt it has the memory capacity or bandwidth for a lossless format like FLAC.

[anthk]

Pentium 2 + 32MB of RAM should be enough.