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Very very excited to be here, ended up on this forum while working on a project. Just love how enthusiastic everyone is over here.

I'm trying to build a web Radio feeding off on a mp3 stream for which iv opted to work with the esp8266.
But for the mp3 decoding side I'm in a bit of confusion as there are many options.
I) using the I2S of esp8266
II) vs10xx series
Can anyone tell me any other modules if there are or which of the above should I opt.

Much love and thanks in advance.

I use these projects web radio that use the Arduino IDE and the VS1053 MP3 decoder chip. I upgraded to the ESP32 version which is faster when using 256Kbps or faster radio stations.

https://github.com/Edzelf/Esp-radio

https://github.com/Edzelf/Esp32-radio

There are projects that do software MP3 decoding but I have not tried them.

I have a VS1053 board but I never got around to connecting it to the ESP8266. I was concerned about performance issues. I never looked for a ESP32 solution, never thought of it. Now I know what I will do.