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[Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/2/27 Jared Norris <jrnorris@xxxxxxxxx>

> On 27 February 2011 13:10, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Mike:
> >
> > 2011/2/26 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> 2011/2/26 Mike Nokel <mnokel@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Hi!
> >>> I have just tested some audio players in my Lubuntu Maverick and I want
> >>> to share my experience with you. First of all, my testing machine was
> Asus
> >>> EEE PC 1015 pn. It has Atom N550 inside and 2 GB of memory.
> >>> Firstly, I have installed deadbeef. I don't know whether it is a bug or
> >>> not but after playing from one to three songs it stops playing at all.
> So
> >>> this player was removed.
> >>> Then I have read about audacious in this mail's list. I have installed
> it
> >>> and it looked very nice, but used ~28% of my CPU. This was too big for
> me,
> >>> so this player was also removed.
> >>> Then I have found decibel audio player. This one used ~18% of my CPU
> and
> >>> had very simple, but nice interface.
> >>> I have also tried pogo audio player. It used ~16% of my CPU.
> >>> So, now about two winners in this small compettion in my opinion. First
> >>> of them is pragha. It is very fast, has simple but nice interface, is
> coded
> >>> in C++ and uses ~14% of my CPU. And the second is alsaplayer. It has
> nice
> >>> interface, equalizer and some available plugins that can imitate winamp
> >>> style. It uses ~12% of my CPU. So I think that this is the best one for
> me.
> >>> P.S. All of these players use nearly the same amount of memory.
> >>> P.P.S. All digits were taken from htop utility.
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Mike Nokel
> >>
> >> Mike:
> >> I tried severall players for Lubuntu, and for me audacious win because:
> >> - CPU doesn't get over 18% on an P3 at 768(1000) mhz
> >> - It was the app consumming less RAM among all (this is a hard point to
> me
> >> because at the time i did those tests i use to have 256ram)
> >> - I can throw to it almost anything, it's codecs are very large
> >> The amount of CPU you're experiencing it's maybe due that you tried it
> >> freshly installed or changed from GTK skin to winamp skin or
> viceversa... in
> >> those cases the cpu consuming gets crazy (don't know why). Just try it
> after
> >> a reboot without touching anything to the conf :)
> >> In an old machine i have, it is the only player that i could get to work
> >> without messing with the sound output.
> >> Julien also commented something about audacious development that was a
> >> good thing to Lubuntu...
> >> Anyway, i will test those players you're pointing, maybe effectively one
> >> of them is better than audacious... i'm having some desapointments with
> the
> >> latest versions of it (but i hope they will fix it)
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jpxsat
> >
> > Decibel has gstreamer dependecies... something that in Lubuntu i don't
> think
> > we are very friend of.
> > Pogo and Pragha are not in the repositories (at least for 10.04) so it
> > generates a problem for the Lubuntu team as they have to take in charge
> > another package... (and so, i didn't even tried them)
> > Alsa-Player is in the repos, no huge dependencies and it really impressed
> me
> > about the cpu consumption, but taking a quick look at it, resulted that
> it's
> > a very incomplete software... starting with the fact that it has no
> autoplay
> > :( Audacious if a little more heavy for the CPU but it's a very complete
> > piece of software ;)
> > --
> > jpxsat
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>
> Just a quick question. I have been using exaile for years now on gnome
> and was wondering if it would be suitable? It has some gstreamer
> dependencies though so if this is a deal breaker I guess not. The only
> thing is I have been using it as a full features program on a quad
> core box and it idles along under 1% cpu usage but I don't have the
> ability to test it on older hardware so thought I'd just mention and
> see if anyone has the ability to test this or not.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
>


Just tested Exaile, the CPU runs fine (17~25%), but it's a little more than
Audacious (13~17%). But i can see crearly why is not an option for Lubuntu:
it consumes 40mb Ram vs Audacious that consumes 17~18mb Ram
Besides, for simplicity packages audacious are just 2... for exaile there
are plenty of it (wich i don't know if it's a bad thing or not, but an app
with just 2 packages seems simplier to me ;)



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jpxsat