I asked on foobar 2000 if foobar itself would work in this way but after trying it myself i didn't manage to get it to work.. perhaps there will be a way to get it to work.. maybe the floppy i used was crappy..

anyways does anyone else know of any uber tiny no thrills players that can play either mp3 or ogg streams.. I would like to get a friend to listen to my stream but he can't use a hdd.. dont even know if he can use a floppy, but maybe he can... its a bizarre question but quite interesting.. i've had a quick google for it and not found anything yet that works

ANyone?!

try this!
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/

1by1 uses winamp plugins so you can play any kind of music file that winamp can. I play ogg, mpc,ape etc.


good luck as i have not tried what you say but it seems this will do it.

Very small player, dos-based (but works on Win32, of course)

http://mpxplay.cjb.net

I second rickio; 1by1 is a small player that will run fine on all windows from 95/nt4 onwards, it writes only to *.ini files in it's own directory and as far as I know doesn't have any peticular dependencies... I've tried to run it from floppy with following plugins (this setup fits nicely onto a 1.44, and should cover most):
in_ape.dll
in_CDReader.dll
in_flac.dll
in_mp4.dll
in_mpc.dll
in_mpg123.dll
in_vorbis.dll
in_wave.dll
in_wv.dll

...and it seems to work just fine. I have a rar-package (725 Kb) of this setup that I could upload, but I fear I might be in violation of something if I did so....(?)

Next after foobar2000 i think this is my favorite player on Windows these days.

Sorry... seems I misunderstood some...
what you want is a proggy that play mp3 and ogg STREAMS ("streams" as in "http://69.28.130.106:8000/" I presume...?) and that is small enough to fit on a floppy...
1by1 doesn't do this... it will only play files locally present on disk. What I could come up with right now are coolplayer http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ that supports internet streams, mp3 + ogg natively in exe only 568 KB. In addition it takes Winamp 2.x input plugs like 1by1 do.... I haven't tried to run it off a floppy, but its small and written in C and should probably survive in any win32 enviroment... at least website doesn't mention any spesific dependencies....
Which kind of system is this for, anyway....?

XMPlay http://www.un4seen.com/ seems to do much the same on 271 KB...
(...also take Winamp 2.x input plugins...)

Verified!
Both coolplayer & XMPlay will run off a floppy playing internet streams...
in fact I put them both on the same 1.44 and still had a staggering 581 Kb free for Winamp plugs...
Could only test this with XP on a *fairly* new box though.....

...Think I like XMPlay best of them -- its smaller and have more advanced config options...

Foobar2000 will work. Download it, install to your hardisk and only install what you need. i.e. the only thing you need ticked is the http reader (under general). When its installed just copy the contents of your foobar2000 dir to a floppy and it *should* work.

And yes its a very bizarre question!