Which music player do you use?

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Originally Posted by Znurre

For me Amarok uses ~80 mb RAM with a playlist of ~300 tracks.
To me that is not a very large memory footprint.

$ ps ux --sort=-rss  | egrep -m 7 .
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
fudje    18800  7.0  3.6 1232264 130048 pts/0  Sl+  00:45   0:30 amarok
fudje     6788  4.5  3.1 956260 111692 pts/0   Sl+  Jan26  91:19 mutter --mutter-plugins=libgnome-shell --replace
fudje    13828  0.1  2.5 1075088 91316 pts/0   SLl+ Jan27   0:41 evolution
fudje    19105  1.1  1.7 2785936 61828 pts/0   Sl+  00:50   0:00 epiphany
fudje    18783  1.1  1.7 1025768 61532 pts/0   Sl+  00:44   0:05 rhythmbox
fudje    15109  0.0  1.1 796660 41364 pts/0    Sl+  Jan27   0:07 nautilus --no-desktop /home/fudje/Images

Rhythmbox is known to be a memory hog, as music players go, and it's using, what, 55 or so MB less memory here? While providing 10 more tracks. That's not even counting the extra memory used by kdeinit. Also, 7% CPU to idle? Even mutter's not using that much, and it's doing desktop composition @75Hz (and leaking memory like a bitch)....

Of course, that's irrelevant. Clearly, if Amarok provides an experience that you perceive as nicer, it's a better player for you. Personally, I dislike the interface organisation.

(Notes of interest — mutter is my window manager, evolution is my email client, epiphany is my web browser, and nautilus is my file manager; Every process you see here except Amarok is running with full debugging symbols, being compiled from development code as of, oh, 7 hours or so ago).