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    1. 08-19-2008 02:38 AM #1
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      Best media player?

      I've been alternating between winamp and itunes for years, but both are getting pretty cumbersome. Yesterday I grabbed Songbird 0.6.1, and it's looking promising. Earlier versions were good for trolling music blogs, but slow and clumsy at handling my music library. This one is much faster/smarter, and from a purely subjective standpoint after two days, it seems less CPU/RAM intensive than current versions of winamp or itunes.

      Anyone else know a good media player?
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    2. 08-19-2008 04:13 AM #2
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      Quintessential Player on Windows, XMMS on Linux. Both are similar to Winamp.
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      As far as I know iTunes is the only one that plays H.264 standard. Well, flash player does, but only in the special flash encoding. The reason it's so CPU intensive is because the codecs are much more complicated.

      If you really want to cut down it's footprint you could cut out the middle man and simple play your files through quicktime. iTunes uses the Quicktime engine, iTunes basically just organizes everything for you.
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      Quote Originally Posted by ninja9578 View Post
      As far as I know iTunes is the only one that plays H.264 standard. Well, flash player does, but only in the special flash encoding. The reason it's so CPU intensive is because the codecs are much more complicated.

      If you really want to cut down it's footprint you could cut out the middle man and simple play your files through quicktime. iTunes uses the Quicktime engine, iTunes basically just organizes everything for you.
      Hmm, perhaps I'll poke at QT a bit--with iTunes, anything I'm doing chugs to a halt between tracks. I'll also have to look up H.264 and see if I care

      Right now I'm having a very positive experience with the current Songbird build--it's basically a Mozilla/Winamp mash-up, but well mashed, and I'm getting better performance out of it than either iTunes or Winamp.
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    5. 08-19-2008 08:43 PM #5
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      Foobar2000 on Windows, some other one otherwise (I use Exaile when in Ubuntu, but it isn't particularly good) Foobar2000 does what you want it to do (plays music, maintains a library) and nothing more. It's very economical as a result, and very responsive.

      Tbh, nowadays I hook up VLC to SLAY Radio, so my media player is just a backup, really.
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      Yup, Foobar2000 is another good one. Very bare-bones, but good.
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