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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Sep 2005 04:56    Post subject: Music. and other stuff.
Some new albums I've enjoyed... and not so enjoyed.

Pushing_Daisies-How_It_Makes_You_Feel-2005-XXL : Been listening to this for a bit, rock/popish, a bit of a guilty pleasure.

Hinder-Extreme_Behavior-2005-BUTT: Enjoying this album very much, a few songs seem out of place (How Long and Room) but the rest of it is excellent. Rock/Disgruntled hoarse voice rock

Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand: Like the first one I find almost the entire album to be abysmal and unlistenable, asides from a few good tracks (Walk Away comes to mind, i love this song, is it me or does this sound like jim morrison / the doors??).

Singles:

Shinedown - Save Me ... I'm a sucker for shinedown. Like the song and looking forward to the album.

Athlete - Tourist ... Change of pace, not sure how to describe it asides from alt...

Our Lady Peace - Where Are You ... enjoy the first 30 seconds. The rest of the new album is decent, pretty typical OLP

Supergrass - St. Petersburg ... Slow odd alt, but good.



Anyways... now to the other stuff!

OK so.. My playlist file size is now just approaching 45,000 songs, and winamp using classic mode is taking up *165* megs of ram. Is this normal? I don't remember it hogging this much, but I haven't made a short playlist of what I like recently (it's a bit tedious) so perhaps this is why.

Any tips on a program less memory intensive with large playlists? All I care about is the ability to sort by path and filename, as I have my files in very specific order (eg. P\Pink Floyd\Wish You Were Here\01 - Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) - Pink Floyd.mp3)

thanks for any help!
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skidrow
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PostPosted: Tue, 27th Sep 2005 17:05    Post subject:
i tried loading 100 songs with mediaplayer. Thing made my pc fucking slow haha
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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Tue, 27th Sep 2005 22:09    Post subject:
swtiched to foobar2000, it's very retro looking but extremely flexible and uses only 12 megs of ram for a 44,000 song + playlist. I love it. Only thing it could use is a volume bar instead of having to press + or - hehe.

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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Sep 2005 19:52    Post subject:
Wow.

It took me several days to realize it, but this is probably the most powerful mp3 program available on the internet. fucking amazing. takes a while to learn all the different things though.

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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Sep 2005 20:11    Post subject:
tried it once, didn't like it Sad

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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Sep 2005 20:19    Post subject:
Foobar owns.

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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Sep 2005 23:30    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
tried it once, didn't like it Sad


I tried it once and thought it was ridiculous...

The other day my computer was actually being slowed down a fairly noticeable amount from winamp so I decided to check for alternatives and remembered that foobar2000 was recommended by someone here (...I had tried it for 5 minutes before uninstalling because it was so plain and ugly a while back... ) So I went and grabbed it again, and used it vanilla style for the next few days. This morning I discovered the whole component thing and have been going crazy customizing it, It's now near the point where it's more functional than anything I've ever used, in 5 seconds I was able to create playlists based on how many times I had listened to a song (and customize what listening a song constitutes... eg how long do you have to listen to it before it counts) or by popularity which you can rate... There's just so much you can do with it, it's amazing. Anyways, I've only been doing it for a day and am still discovering things, I feel like such a nerd but it's really fun I actually skipped class for this.
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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Sep 2005 23:48    Post subject:
well then .... I'll have to give it another try Wink

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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Thu, 29th Sep 2005 03:54    Post subject:
it all depends on if you have enough time...

it uses components in a similar sense to firefox, with a lot more customizability, but you have to do some stuff manually so it all depends...

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PostPosted: Thu, 29th Sep 2005 04:41    Post subject:
Um... Winamp?

I've always loved winamp, and the way my desktop is setup, and using the mmd3 skin, i can have everything hidden, with winamp as a bar along the top of my screen.
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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Thu, 29th Sep 2005 06:24    Post subject:
I like winamp too, and if you want a small (optical size) player it's the best.

But if you are like me and keep the playlist taking up the whole screen anyway, the almost infinite functionality of foobar makes it well worth the steep learning curve.

i'll give you a metaphor... winamp is like the most compact point and shoot digital cameras. it does what it does good but doesn't offer nearly as much features as a good dSLR which is a little bigger but if size doesnt matter, worlds better in every category.
It all depends on what you need. People content with a smaller display but less functionality will be better to go with winamp...

funny thing is, with all this stuff it can do, it still takes up less than 1/5 of what winamp was doing at the same playlist size.

I'm sorry. I just discovered all this stuff today that I never realized I could do and it's very exciting for me, the nerd that i am

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