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* [gentoo-user] Amarok
@ 2010-09-20  6:02 András Csányi
  2010-09-20 10:02 ` Jonas de Buhr
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: András Csányi @ 2010-09-20  6:02 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi Guys,

I like amarok, I don't know why just I like it. Yesterday, when I
switched off amarok I saw the CPU using went down from ~40% to ~3% and
kwin from ~30% to ~1%.
the side effects of this, slower desktop and sometimes is
uncomfortable. My machine has 4GB RAM and nvidia (geforce 8400), but
the CPUs are celeron. The system is 64 bit.

I'm thinking I will change Amarok to Audacious.

Anybody else experienced this or just I'm cursed? :)

Any help thanks in advance!

András
-- 
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--  Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando)  -- http://sayusi.hu --
http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi
--  ""Trust in God and keep your gunpowder dry!" - Cromwell



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok
  2010-09-20  6:02 [gentoo-user] Amarok András Csányi
@ 2010-09-20 10:02 ` Jonas de Buhr
  2010-09-20 10:30   ` Yohan Pereira
  2010-09-20 10:24 ` [gentoo-user] Amarok Nikos Chantziaras
  2010-09-20 15:53 ` [gentoo-user] Amarok Volker Armin Hemmann
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jonas de Buhr @ 2010-09-20 10:02 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi!

>I'm thinking I will change Amarok to Audacious.

Maybe you should have a look at aTunes, rhythmbox, exaile,
gmusicbrowser and jajuk too... :)

>Anybody else experienced this or just I'm cursed? :)

I had a lot of stability problems with amarok on opensuse. IMHO it's
not worth the hassle, go with one of the alternatives.

jdb



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* [gentoo-user] Re: Amarok
  2010-09-20  6:02 [gentoo-user] Amarok András Csányi
  2010-09-20 10:02 ` Jonas de Buhr
@ 2010-09-20 10:24 ` Nikos Chantziaras
  2010-09-20 15:53 ` [gentoo-user] Amarok Volker Armin Hemmann
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2010-09-20 10:24 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 09/20/2010 09:02 AM, András Csányi wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I like amarok, I don't know why just I like it. Yesterday, when I
> switched off amarok I saw the CPU using went down from ~40% to ~3% and
> kwin from ~30% to ~1%.
> the side effects of this, slower desktop and sometimes is
> uncomfortable. My machine has 4GB RAM and nvidia (geforce 8400), but
> the CPUs are celeron. The system is 64 bit.
>
> I'm thinking I will change Amarok to Audacious.
>
> Anybody else experienced this or just I'm cursed? :)

Strange.  First time I hear of this.  I've been using Amarok (currently 
2.3.1.90) for quite a while, never had this problem.




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* Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok
  2010-09-20 10:02 ` Jonas de Buhr
@ 2010-09-20 10:30   ` Yohan Pereira
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Yohan Pereira @ 2010-09-20 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Monday 20 September 2010 11:32:57 am András Csányi wrote:
> I like amarok, I don't know why just I like it. Yesterday, when I
> switched off amarok I saw the CPU using went down from ~40% to ~3% and
> kwin from ~30% to ~1%.

I use amarok all the time, although its not lite, its cpu usage is normally 
arround 5-7 % while playing and kwin is arround ~1% (when amarok is minimised 
to the tray). When the window is shown the usage is slightly higher(kwin 
arround 15%)  this i think is because ive got the images applet enabled which 
shows a sort of slide show of images with various transitioning effects like 
(blending).

im on 2.3.1. what version are you using? try upgrading to the latest? try 
disabling a few applets that you dont need or might be heavy.

> My machine has 4GB RAM and nvidia (geforce 8400), but
> the CPUs are celeron. The system is 64 bit.

ive got a similar machine but with a core 2 duo cpu

> I had a lot of stability problems with amarok on opensuse. IMHO it's
> not worth the hassle, go with one of the alternatives.

well i guess its improved a lot lately, ive never had any stablity issues with 
amarok.

-- 
- Yohan Pereira.




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* Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok
  2010-09-20  6:02 [gentoo-user] Amarok András Csányi
  2010-09-20 10:02 ` Jonas de Buhr
  2010-09-20 10:24 ` [gentoo-user] Amarok Nikos Chantziaras
@ 2010-09-20 15:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
  2010-09-20 19:11   ` Nils Larsson
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Volker Armin Hemmann @ 2010-09-20 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Monday 20 September 2010, András Csányi wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking I will change Amarok to Audacious.
> 
> Anybody else experienced this or just I'm cursed? :)

cursed.

Also, if you want something 'light':
qmmp
alsaplayer



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok
  2010-09-20 15:53 ` [gentoo-user] Amarok Volker Armin Hemmann
@ 2010-09-20 19:11   ` Nils Larsson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nils Larsson @ 2010-09-20 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

> Also, if you want something 'light':
> qmmp
> alsaplayer

There's also media-sound/clementine



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