-- Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 04 November 2002, 09:07 PM -0600): > > I've had problems running console-based music programs -- starting new > > programs and processes tends to interrupt music output, which I find > > annoying. If you're using a graphical environment, I highly recommend > > xmms -- it's fairly lightweight, there are a number of different panel > > applets that can control it (as well as CLI commands!), and can play > > just about anything. > > I wouldn't exactly call it lightweight... > > I have both xmms and cplay open right now, and gtop shows xmms at 28MB, and > mpg123 (via cplay) at less than 3MB... It's lightweight when compared to other GUI clients, particularly on Windows. My wife has a 1.8GHz machine with 256MB dual-booting Debian and Windows 98, and winamp will slow that machine to a crawl, while xmms hardly registers (I've had OpenOffice, the GIMP, Evolution, and multiple Mozilla windows all open simultaneous to running XMMS on that machine, while under windows if I try to open more than one or two programs beyond winamp, it'll die).
Also, note that I mentioned I've had problems with CLI music programs -- wierd skips that occur when new processes start, etc. This is simply *my* experience. If I could find a viable CLI alternative, I'd jump on it! (I use screen a lot, and really have my window manager up primarily for a web browser and the occasional GIMP session). Don't bother pointing one out on this thread, however -- I've tried just about all of the ones available in Debian. > For me this is not a concern, but for someone with, say, 128MB of RAM, if they > are running a desktop environment, an email client, and a few mozilla > windows, 28MB of RAM is suddenly a scarce resource. Interestinly, my primary machine is a Celeron 366MHz that until recently had only 96MB -- XMMS hasn't been a problem on this machine. Of course, I'm running blackbox, gkrellm, ROX-Filer, screen, and Phoenix, so my resource usage is pretty mimimal :-) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]