Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 04 January 2007 01:49, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms': Incidentally, I just did a similar comparison on my machine between audacious and amarok, and found that amarok consistently uses at least 2.2 times the amount of memory

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-04 Thread maxim wexler
IMHO audacious is using a perfectly reasonable amount of resources, OP here. My original problem was that xmms wouldn't play wmas and mplayer, which does, sputtered whenever the hard drive was active. Following the thread led me to audacious which I hadn't even heard of. So far it's

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-04 Thread Dan
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:43:48 +0100 Robert Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:05:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Throughout this thread many people have commented on audacious being a resource hog of monumental proportions. Every single one of them

RE: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Daniel Barkalow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 December 2006 05:28 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, maxim wexler wrote: Will audacious not work for you? Haven't tried yet

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 15:17, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: I moved to amarok, I might give audacious a shot. What about noatun for a smallish player? Not sure on it's RAM usage. Also look at Quod Libet or Banshee which are meant to be similar in features to amarok but lighter in

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:05:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Throughout this thread many people have commented on audacious being a resource hog of monumental proportions. Every single one of them is wrong and this myth really needs to be debunked. Here's why: I agree. I'm still

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 23:43, Robert Cernansky wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:05:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Throughout this thread many people have commented on audacious being a resource hog of monumental proportions. Every single one of them is wrong and this

[gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, mplayer has some problems that xmms doesn't. Whenever a lot of hard-drive activity takes place on my PC, mplayer faulters and sputters. I have to run xmms if I want uninterrupted music. And this is a fairly up-to-date unit with a Gig o' RAM. If I want shuffle mode I must first open

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Mark M
On 12/29/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, mplayer has some problems that xmms doesn't. Whenever a lot of hard-drive activity takes place on my PC, mplayer faulters and sputters. I have to run xmms if I want uninterrupted music. And this is a fairly up-to-date unit with a

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 29 December 2006 19:23, maxim wexler wrote: mplayer has some problems that xmms doesn't. [SNIP] So why don't you just keep using xmms? Do you have any problems with it? mplayer *can* play wmas, so that's a plus. Doesn't the xmms-wma plugin work for you? $ eix -c xmms-wma [N]

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 10:23 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, mplayer has some problems that xmms doesn't. Whenever a lot of hard-drive activity takes place on my PC, mplayer faulters and sputters. I have to run xmms if I want uninterrupted music. And this is a fairly up-to-date unit

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread maxim wexler
So why don't you just keep using xmms? Do you have any problems with it? mplayer *can* play wmas, so that's a plus. Doesn't the xmms-wma plugin work for you? No. It just skips the wmas. $ eix -c xmms-wma [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix -c xmms-wma [I] media-plugins/xmms-wma (1.0.5): XMMS

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread maxim wexler
Will audacious not work for you? Haven't tried yet. Fellow down the list says it's a resource hog like mplayer. Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, maxim wexler wrote: Will audacious not work for you? Haven't tried yet. Fellow down the list says it's a resource hog like mplayer. I don't have xmms any more to compare against, but audacious seems to be almost identical to it as far as I can tell. As far as memory