[Tfug] Suggestions on something less horrifically bloated than Amarok?

[Christopher Robbins]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:15 AM, <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:

> Short and sweet --
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> The degree of sheet bloat and unchecked corpulence of Amarok is beyond
> shameful. Its painful. Circus fat lady sitting next to you in coach with a
> 90 pound tumor on a transatlantic flight painful. Check out the pain from
> ps:
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> root     32494  3.9  1.3 655676 53900 pts/1    Sl   16:36   0:05 amarokapp
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> root     32521  0.0  0.6 225720 25496 pts/1    S    16:36   0:00
> amarokcollectionscanner --nocrashhandler -p -r /mnt
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> Now, I'm no math major, but this piece of shit requires 900MB of just to
> get off it's fat ass and draw a welcome screen.  Apparently, it takes Amarok
> 255MB just to scan a handful of ID3 tags in your MP3s, and another 655MB to
> actually play them…one at a time. I've got a friend at work who can't seem
> to break his indulgent, wasteful Amarok habit. Anybody got any suggestions
> on a svelt but full-featured media player that won't cause paging activity
> on half the machines it runs on?


Full-featured?  So something like xmms is out of the question?


-- 
Christopher P Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
1423 East University Blvd.
Modern Languages, Bldg. 67, Room 422
Tucson, Arizona 85719
Phone: (520) 621-3496
Email: robbinsc at gmail.com
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