poopipe Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 I want to play music in the background while I'm playing games and I don't want to waste much of my lovely memory and cpu time doing itI can't use the 3 main options for the following reasonswindows media player - eats too much juicewinamp - is just plain c*nty Itunes - don't make me laughsooo...Is there anything out there (for windows) that has playlists and...A: doesn't eat too much juiceB: isn't a complete c*ntI don't want a visualiser, I don't want it to monitor my folders for new music, I don't care if I have to make my playlists again. All it has to do is play the tunes I ask it to as unobtrusively and efficiently as possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixed Pants™ Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Winamp! it uses like 3 bytes at the most, doesn't matter if it's plain cunty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 I use Nero Player, its not too bad...although I don't think my computer would effect much from itunes to Nero, never really use my PC to its full potential. But its a nice little player, easy to use and all that.Also, if you want to, you could go to downloads.com (or download? cant remember) and download a media player, obviously get a free one, it will be shit, but I wouldn't think it would eat resources...It just fills your computer with crap in exchange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 (edited) Winamp! it uses like 3 bytes at the most, doesn't matter if it's plain cuntyi beg to differ33,788 k at startup with no tunes loadedanzo - I'll investigate nero Edited December 20, 2006 by poopipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Also, have you tried changing the skin on Media player to a bare minimum and scrapping those gay Visualations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixed Pants™ Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Nero eats penis.Winamp - I play my bangin' toonz when playing games such as San Andreas... NO problems, no judders no skips nothing... To put that into perspective; when i drive fast enough in a car in San Andreas and it goes blurry, the frame rate is literally 3 fps and winamp doesn't have any problems, also, when my comp freezes and dies, winamp still plays no matter what... I don't use it anymore as i find iMashitmusicplayer because i like the search and it's sort of ok to use, but it's shite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Also, have you tried changing the skin on Media player to a bare minimum and scrapping those gay Visualations?done the skin - haven't figured out how to ditch the visualisations cos I'm dimI think the biggest resource drain from media player comes from the disk indexing and the way it handles your music library rather than the stupid pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Right click the gay picture, 'No Visulations' or something like that...If I remember correctly. Stuck at work at the minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Windows Media Player Classic? Uses 5mb memory on startup, 15mb playing an MP3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Windows Media Player Classic? Uses 5mb memory on startup, 15mb playing an MP3.I thought that was winamp? ...What the frig is Winamp?! lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 winamp.com Used to be good, now utterly bloated and shit.New suggestion: Winamp 2.18? (I think that was the version before it went crap) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 See, back in the olden days you could put a CD in and press 'play' on the drive...no applications! Now drives dont even come with play and skip buttons...What is the world coming to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 I use Winamp 2 - It's the old skinny version before they tried getting flashy. It's basically what you're after - no fancy shizzle.I use it on a celeron 800 with 256 RAM (My stepdads PC, sold my decent laptop) and it runs really fast so it must be easy on the memory!Go go go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebelistic Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Windows Media Player Classic? Uses 5mb memory on startup, 15mb playing an MP3.I use that on my main PC. I prefer it to the newer versions. I think it's version 6 - not too sure though.If you install new codecs you can still watch new WMV files etc.If you have already installed a newer version then I doubt it will let you go back to the older one - Microsoft are annoying like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 (edited) does media player classic do playlists? that's the important thing. I want this running in the background while I'm playing battlefield so movies n stuff aren't important Edited December 20, 2006 by poopipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 does media player classic do playlists? Yep, ctrl + 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 I use dBpowerAMP has playlist functions low memory usage and no visualizations at all. Very easy to use simple interface and can be set to hide in the task bar at the bottom right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orgun_Donor Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Foobar2000 - Ill post a pic of what mine looks like when i get homeBut check it out at - www.foobar2000.orgWikipedia link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmt_oli Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 I say try winamp again, but uninstall and install the old version, pre XP, as has been mentioned. Still featureful, and very good memory wise.http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=winamp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robwalker Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Im not being silly, but why not just play it on your mp3 player and listen to it that way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orgun_Donor Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Here are some pics of my Foobar PlayingReally should look into it if you want a lightweight player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Foobar2000 for sure if its for audio best thing about it is you can customize it to do whatever you like.[attachmentid=8849]As for video have you tried VLC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixed Pants™ Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 (edited) I've recently had to convert to firefox as my IE was being wankly slow, and i'm liking foxytunes, seems efficient memory wise... Reccomend this.VLC is immensely good, simple and plays just about everything. Edited December 20, 2006 by Fat Pants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted December 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 foobar's looking good but I'm gonna try media player classic first cos you just know that'll work properly. I use vlc on my linux box for watching all the stolen bmx videos and german porn - hasnt let me down yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_Fel Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 here's a few out of the box options.get an mp3 player.buy a stero system.sing yourself.put the radio on.submit to the voices in your head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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