For my understanding, both songbird and rhythmbox are all gstreamer based media player, and they are all imitate to Apple iTune.
Songbird is based on mozilla runtime environment, more heavy than rhythmbox. and rhytmbox has been default music player for gnome. They are both full featured. I use them both. > Ok this is in respect of SXCE 101a which includes both Songbird and Rhythmbox. > I have what I suspect as a mediocre size library of mp3 that is 113G in size. > But that > is not the issue. When I examine the RSS value of Songbird (506M) vs the RSS > value of Rhythmbox 87M for the same size of imported mp3 files that is quite > a large > difference. > > The question is what is a reasonable consumption of memory for a multimedia > application? I do understand that Songbird has other options but what I > would > like a good understanding is what is a reasonable limit of memory consumption > of these two multimedia applications on a desktop with 4G of memory. > > I would just like to hear some logical justification of the memory > consumption with > the intended target audience/usage of their respective systems. > > ---Bob >
