ok i did the reinstall of the plugin i got from winamp and it still does the same thing in mm when configured at 32 bit so i closed it and then.
i decided to try it in the winamp program.
winamp did play the mp3 with mad configured to the 32 bit. however when i closed winamp it caused winamp to crash.
i then restarted winamp changed the configuration of mad to the 16 bit. and played the same mp3. it worked so i closed winamp and it did also work with out crashing.
so i opened up mm and went back to the plugin manager to configure mad to the 16 bit as i had it confiugred to the 32 bit. but when i clicked on the button to configure it the plug in was already at the 16 bit??? only thing i can think of is that the madplug in is now being controled by the same controler for mm that it is for winamp and it will control the configuration of mad for winamp from the plug in that is in the folder for mm.
last version of mm allowed me to have the plug in for mad in both folders one for winamp and one for mm. this one is not.? well it is not on this win98 computer anyway.
but it seems like it will not play the 32bit option then it is useless on this win98 as mm plays the 16 bit with out mad.