Media player that isn't a RAM hog like Winamp?

[fireside]

It's really starting to get to me how much of my RAM Winamp feels it needs. It's probably the most entitled app on my machine, since I've switched from Firefox to Chrome (really miss adblock, though).

This said, any suggestions?

 

[Corny]

^checking this one out now i am still not really content with any MP, winamp has the best ui and playlist management, but yeah .. it has become quite a resource hog (unlike during it's 2.x days ).
also very nice, but rather spartanic is foobar2000

 

[fireside]

^checking this one out now i am still not really content with any MP, winamp has the best ui and playlist management, but yeah .. it has become quite a resource hog (unlike during it's 2.x days ).
also very nice, but rather spartanic is foobar2000

I miss back when winamp used to run quietly without needing every single farking ounce of RAM a computer might have.

Now, admittedly my machine's going on five years old--which, in computer "years" means it was out to pasture three years ago--but it still hangs as much as it can.

 

[Nephelauxetic]

Don't you have plenty of ram anyway? Given you have a couple of ten megs free, if winamp is just allocating a lot of ram as a database and not regularly accessing it this has no performance relevance.

 

[Corny]

and your point is? just because there is enough RAM i don't need to waste it i am from a generation where we fiddled and tweaked our machines to use as less as possible from the 640k we had. you would only need computers half that fast if people still would program that efficient.

 

[Paws]

I've looked for a skin that is fairly simple and has larger buttons and stuff but no luck.

The default "Big Bento" skin does it for my 1600x1200 pixels monitor. You can also double the size of a skin in the options.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Do you have a bunch of add-on's to Winamp? I started it and playing an internet radio station it is using 66 meg. That's not really a tremendous amount. Firefox is using 95 meg. Winamp does seem to want more than it's share of CPU resources however.

 

[Corny]

^ well - and that makes me wonder why you are using such high resolutions when you have poor eyesight

 

[Paws]

High resolution != small content

High resolution == more space to work with

An up to date OS allows you to adjust the font and icons size

 

[Corny]

high resolution = all pixel data (aka bitmaps) is fucking small.
everything with fancy skins is using bitmaps.

 

[Paws]

Yes, but just because he uses Winamp it doesn't mean he should work on 640x480 when using Office Word or Photoshop...