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    Posted: August 01 2011 at 09:38
My cpu and ram measurements for 6 different mp3 playing programs.

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Foobar, 1for1, Billy, Winamp, VLC and Windows Media Player.

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IMO Foobar is the best player, people dislike it because of the minimal design (which is a reason I like it so much) and because you have to customize it to get 100%. 
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I'd get foobar if it was available for mac (grrr). I use songbird for flac albums and itunes for mp3. Both of which work great for me. And have good designs 
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Points: 10185 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 12:39
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

IMO Foobar is the best player, people dislike it because of the minimal design (which is a reason I like it so much) and because you have to customize it to get 100%. 


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How can a music player with a GUI be minimal? Confused Geek
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 13:08
I had foobar for awhile but even on my old laptop I didn't find a really compelling reason to switch. Winamp's been good to me.


Also, lol Windows Media Player.
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 13:15
I don't care enough to not use iTunes. So I guess it's good that you didn't bother to test iTunes because I wouldn't care anyway.


Edited by Henry Plainview - August 01 2011 at 13:15
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Points: 5195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 13:20
I'll continue using the player that includes Milkdrop.Big smile





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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 13:21
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

How can a music player with a GUI be minimal? Confused Geek


That's right Vomps.  MPD or gtfo.
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Points: 10185 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 13:27
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

How can a music player with a GUI be minimal? Confused Geek


That's right Vomps.  MPD or gtfo.

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Points: 18016 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 13:28
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

I don't care enough to not use iTunes. So I guess it's good that you didn't bother to test iTunes because I wouldn't care anyway.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 13:31
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

How can a music player with a GUI be minimal? Confused Geek

I said minimal design not minimal player. 
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

I don't care enough to not use iTunes. So I guess it's good that you didn't bother to test iTunes because I wouldn't care anyway.

I didn't test iTunes because I don't want to install something that comes in a 78MB install file. That size is not just unbelievable, but probably also a hint about that it's not very lightweight...


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btw, I added "Windows Media Player Classic" to the test.
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2011 at 16:12
Originally posted by Boray Boray wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

I don't care enough to not use iTunes. So I guess it's good that you didn't bother to test iTunes because I wouldn't care anyway.

I didn't test iTunes because I don't want to install something that comes in a 78MB install file. That size is not just unbelievable, but probably also a hint about that it's not very lightweight...

Yeah, and you have to redownload the 78 mb for every update, god bless Apple. For what it's worth, iTunes is using about 36,000 kb of memory playing an MP3 right now on my computer, but, as I said earlier, I really don't care. 
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Originally posted by Boray Boray wrote:

My cpu and ram measurements for 6 different mp3 playing programs.

Tested:
Foobar, 1for1, Billy, Winamp, VLC and Windows Media Player.

http://user.tninet.se/~zmj477m/mp3players/


How can Foobar and WMP Classic have lower consumption with GUI than minimized??
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Points: 30 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2011 at 06:20
Originally posted by mono mono wrote:


How can Foobar and WMP Classic have lower consumption with GUI than minimized??

You mean when idle? Good question. I measured that again now and got exactly the same values for when idle with and without gui:

Foobar: 0.137 MHz.
WMP Classic: 0,68 MHz

I guess these are such small numbers that it's in the margin or error. And there is one more thing I have discovered: If you do something else with the computer while measuring, for example scroll around heavily in your web browser, the numbers goes up slightly. I guess this could have to do with that the programs have to wait for the system when it's occupied doing things maybe.
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Noticed something more now: The value for Windows Media Player varies in between 232 to 288 depending on how big the window is. I guess it takes much cpu to show that progress bar.
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2011 at 17:48
You should test Zune. It'd be off the chart LOL

I still love the design though, so I won't stop using it. Tongue
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