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Favourite player for listening music?
Xyresic:
--- Quote from: der richter on November 07, 2010, 05:25:36 PM ---i am really satisfied with iTunes for Mac and it isn't really heavy here, just 45MB of ram. don't know how it is on windows.
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Try opening up the store or something, that number likely doubles.
Memory and CPU usage aside (considering any modern computer shouldn't have any problem with RAM or playing a audio track), iTunes is just abysmal with speeds. It takes forever to start up (I can start my internet browser and load 8 tabs faster than iTunes, that's just sad), forever to change playlists, pretty much forever to do anything. They have improved it considerably with v9, but compared to other players, it's slow as a snail. Bunch that with no FLAC support, a really crappy converter which only converts stuff to ACC, no global hotkeys, no fade-outs when switching between songs (seriously, how hard can this be?)... yea...
Soulreaper77:
--- Quote from: Xyresic on November 07, 2010, 07:07:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: der richter on November 07, 2010, 05:25:36 PM ---i am really satisfied with iTunes for Mac and it isn't really heavy here, just 45MB of ram. don't know how it is on windows.
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Try opening up the store or something, that number likely doubles.
Memory and CPU usage aside (considering any modern computer shouldn't have any problem with RAM or playing a audio track), iTunes is just abysmal with speeds. It takes forever to start up (I can start my internet browser and load 8 tabs faster than iTunes, that's just sad), forever to change playlists, pretty much forever to do anything. They have improved it considerably with v9, but compared to other players, it's slow as a snail. Bunch that with no FLAC support, a really crappy converter which only converts stuff to ACC, no global hotkeys, no fade-outs when switching between songs (seriously, how hard can this be?)... yea...
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Well that's quality from Apple eh xD
That being said I think I'll give a try to Foobar to see if it's any faster than Winamp since winamp does lose the connection to the internet stream quite often if I'm browsing in firefox. Especially when on reddit or quickly browsing the forums.
Enzedder:
Dad used Winamp. I used Winamp. Stayed with that till about a year ago. Switched to foobar and never looked back. I still have Winamp in-case but foobar handles everything for me in a nice simple interface.
der richter:
--- Quote from: Xyresic on November 07, 2010, 07:07:35 PM ---It takes forever to start up (I can start my internet browser and load 8 tabs faster than iTunes, that's just sad), forever to change playlists, pretty much forever to do anything. They have improved it considerably with v9, but compared to other players, it's slow as a snail. Bunch that with no FLAC support, a really crappy converter which only converts stuff to ACC, no global hotkeys, no fade-outs when switching between songs (seriously, how hard can this be?)... yea...
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the situation on mac seems different. iTunes loads in just 1-2 seconds. playlist change instantly. it's not slow at all. yeah no flac support normally but for mac OS there is a "plugin" for it. iTunes convert to ACC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3 and wav. i also have global hotkeys. there is an option for fade-out, maybe i didn't get it correctly.
as conclusion for mac os:
5 problems you mention which aren't present at all.
- slow start -> only 1-2 seconds
- slow at changing playlist -> instantly
- general slow
- converts only to ACC -> converts to other formats too
- no global hotkeys -> there are global hotkeys
1 problem which is solvable with a "plugin"
- no flac support
1 problem i'm not sure about
- fade outs, did you mean this
i think on mac os x iTunes (v10) is a really capable music player and doesn't have the most disadvantages you mentioned.
--- Quote from: Takeshi on November 07, 2010, 05:49:56 PM ---I wasn't referring to its memory usage, but to how much it needs to install of files in order to work. More files = slower system.
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yeah on windows you need a lot more to download and install just to get it working. it's because of the way it was constructed for mac os. itunes uses a lot recourses which aren't present on windows but are integrated on mac os, like quicktime and cocoa. and you shouldn't generalize like "more files = slower system" there are much more important factors like data handling and optimization, but i won't go on any further this is not a tech talk, sorry.
mgz:
i use media monkey, doesnt crash like winamp used to when checking my library for files at every start is also significantly faster as far as response to opening things and i enjoy the way it changes tracks.
Winamp used to crash on me all the time on several different comps on win7 and win xp pro. So i stopped using it.
Tried foobar the player worked nicely just didnt like how bare bones it looked and was to lazy to download shit to change it.
So mediamonkey ftw
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