Daylene Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Hi everyone, I have a 533Mhz cpu and 380MB ram in my Ubuntu machine. I am building a large music collection, and I want to have it organized similar to like the way amaroK has, but something that uses less Cpu power. I've tried xmms, but it isn't good for large amounts of music. Got any alternatives? (Oh and Audioscrobbler compatibility would be a plus) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 MPEG123: http://www.mpg123.de/ Its command line though, thus the reason it has low cpu usage. I don't really see CPU usage as being a problem though with any player, as mp3 decoding is quite efficient and utilized a small amount of CPU usage. Are you sure you arent running a visualization and possibly using a generic xf86 driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rootwiler Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 try .. Apollo Player .. http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/ -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chronopoulos Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Try XMMS. In Ubuntu, go to terminal and enter: sudo apt-get install xmms Away you go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Try XMMS. In Ubuntu, go to terminal and enter: sudo apt-get install xmms Away you go! I've tried xmms, but it isn't good for large amounts of music. I would probably try one of the command line players. I use Rhythmbox, but I have no idea how it would run on a slower computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0nic69 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 i hear footbar is a good one, i dont use it, i like WMP. http://www.foobar2000.org/ Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives Full Unicode support on Windows NT ReplayGain support Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger) Highly customizable playlist display Customizable keyboard shortcuts Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch00 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 ya foobar is a good choice :) (yes i realize its a windows app), but i have it running just about 100% with crossover office 5, and im sure WINE could handle it too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Using wine would probably increase the cpu usage dramatically, as it has to emulate the windows sound system/gui along with translating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Veteran Posted December 28, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2005 You can make your playlists in advance and then use the commandline interface of mplayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mousepadtech Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 winamp 0.20 get it here http://download.oldversion.com/winamp020.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Veteran Posted December 28, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2005 ^ Linux forum remember? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0nic69 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 i hear footbar is a good one, i dont use it, i like WMP. http://www.foobar2000.org/ Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives Full Unicode support on Windows NT ReplayGain support Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger) Highly customizable playlist display Customizable keyboard shortcuts Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK) oops, didnt notice he was asking for linux, sry :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Wow. People really don't read anything anymore. Just to clarify: This is the Linux forum and a Linux question... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylene Posted December 28, 2005 Author Share Posted December 28, 2005 Well guys, I've been using a combo of amaroK (played with the settings) and xmms, and they don't see to put much strain on the cpu. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_demilord Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Just don't use the ARTS engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 28, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2005 You can make your playlists in advance and then use the commandline interface of mplayer. Second that mplayer recommendation! :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Using wine would probably increase the cpu usage dramatically, as it has to emulate the windows sound system/gui along with translating. Wine Is Not an Emulator! It is an API package that suppliments what most windows applications expect as far as standard interface libraries. There is no emulation taking place, because a binary compiled for an x86 machine should have its intructions executed fine on an x86 machine regardless of operating system. It comes down to what supporting files and system are available to the executable as to whether the program works correctly. Still, probably a lot better native linux music players out there. Wine is kind of a pain to setup, and I'd avoid it if you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msg43 Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 I sugest MPD (Music Playing Deamon) with a front end. MPD is very let, nice and pretty easy to use. You can use the mpc frontend which is a console base app, pygmy which is a pygtk frontend or numerous of other frontends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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