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[Jared Norris <jrnorris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 February 2011 14:44, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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Thanks for testing that, sorry it's not a real option but I've just
found it reasonably good for large play lists so thought it was worth
a shot. I should look at audacious at some stage myself I guess. I
agree though, the less we can do "specifically for Lubuntu" the
better, so anything that's in the repositories already has my vote.

Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris