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

[bpoag at comcast.net]

Sorta. He wants album covers, lyrics, and the ability to play by tags. 

Cheers,
Bowie

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From: "Christopher Robbins" <robbinsc at gmail.com>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:15 AM, <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Short and sweet --
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > root     32494  3.9  1.3 655676 53900 pts/1    Sl   16:36   0:05 amarokapp
> >
> >
> > root     32521  0.0  0.6 225720 25496 pts/1    S    16:36   0:00
> > amarokcollectionscanner --nocrashhandler -p -r /mnt
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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