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Re: FW: Another interesting music player

 

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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 23:03, Sylkis <sylkis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I tried that xnoise and personally have problems with getting it working.
> it launches, but it doesn't read playlists, and trying it to add folders
> with music makes it hanged. anyway, I can't have it play anything, so it
> looks like deadbeef is easier to use, and thus I'd stick with it :)
>
> 2010/6/23 Sylkis <sylkis@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> this looks really nice. since temporairly I use regular ubuntu with no
>> lubuntu, I have to first update myself (karmic to lucid), because of some
>> dependiences, to chceck it out. but looks it really encouraging :)
>>
>> 2010/6/23 Glenn de Groot <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>  From: glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> To: pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: RE: [Lubuntu-desktop] Another interesting music player
>>> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:56:46 +0000
>>>
>>> Sorry, it doesn´t use python.
>>> I got confused by misreading this part of an article:
>>>
>>> xnoise is written in vala. This means it is compiled to pure Gobject/C
>>> and therfore very fast and lightweight *compared with other music
>>> players written in mono or python.*
>>>
>>> I already thought it was kinda strange since it did not come with python
>>> dependencies. :P
>>> So it does use about 4 or 5 mb of ram.
>>>
>>> -Glenn
>>>
>>> > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:37:38 +0800
>>> > Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Another interesting music player
>>> > From: pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx
>>> > To: glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > CC: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Something using python never uses less memory than a C program.
>>> > You forgot to count the python runtime in.
>>> > The whole python runtime sometimes consumes more than 20 mb.
>>> > Of course, if you only count the little script in, it uses less than 5
>>> > mb, but that's not true.
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Glenn de Groot
>>> > <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > > Hello,
>>> > > found another interesting music player called Xnoise.
>>> > > It uses 4.5 mb of ram on start up while deadbeef uses 11 mb.
>>> > > Deadbeef also uses 10.8 mb while playing an mp3 (interesting
>>> decrease) and
>>> > > xnoise uses 5.7.
>>> > > It´s a gtk app coded in Python and uses gstreamer so it also plays
>>> video´s
>>> > > but it is aimed as a music player.
>>> > > website:
>>> > > http://code.google.com/p/xnoise/
>>> > >
>>> > > Just thought it´s an interesting little app. ;)
>>> > > -Glenn
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