MacPlay3 was Fraunhofer's port of the WinPlay3 MP3 player for Mac OS Classic. It has the same (few) features of its Windows counterpart.

The alpha 0.99 version works on the M68K platform, but it is only useful for decoding, since the 68k CPU is not powerful enough to playback MP3 in real time. Besides, it is a demo version with no interface (all commands are done through the menu bar, similar to Winamp 0.2) and playback is limited to 20 seconds (decoding to AIFF is not limited).

Version 1.4b2 was the last version released by FhG and only works on PowerPC machines, but it has an actual interface and no limitations.

A mirror of the MacPlay3 website is available at the Internet Archive.

At least, version 0.99 had the very best installation blurb...


Date: 1997-05-27
Version: 1.4b2
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic PPC
Download: mpl3_14b2.hqx - 519kB

Date: 1996-03-28
Version: 0.99 alpha
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic 68K
Download: MacPlay3_Installer.hqx - 168kB