Music ?

[NoOp]

On 05/17/2009 01:42 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2009/5/17 Rick <rick0009 at gmail.com>:
>> Have a massive audio collection, 800GB of wma, .mp3, flac...
>> now that I am using linux (ubuntu), would like know,
>> what is the best app for managing such a large collection,
>> that offers allot details, like meta-data, custom fields (tags),
>> and music art.
> 
> I don't know about all the features you mentioned there, but the only
> audio player that I found (so far) that really can handle gap-less
> audio playing decently, is SongBird. At least for FLAC (I don't use
> other formats, so I don't know about them, maybe it plays them
> gap-lessly too).

I installed Songbird on your recommendation. Ifinally got it working
fine, but it sucks up too much of my of my CPU (2.4Ghz/1GB ram).  In
this case, playing one song the cpu varies from 58.7 to 25.2:

$ top |grep songbird
20   0  320m 100m  33m R 58.7 10.1   1:17.42 songbird-bin
20   0  320m 100m  33m S 27.9 10.1   1:18.26 songbird-bin
20   0  320m 100m  33m R 34.2 10.1   1:19.29 songbird-bin
20   0  320m 100m  33m R 27.5 10.1   1:20.12 songbird-bin
20   0  320m 100m  33m R 33.2 10.1   1:21.12 songbird-bin
20   0  320m 100m  33m R 27.2 10.1   1:21.94 songbird-bin
20   0  320m 100m  33m R 36.6 10.1   1:23.04 songbird-bin
20   0  320m 100m  33m R 25.2 10.1   1:23.80 songbird-bin

Same song/file in Rhythmbox:
$ top |grep rhythmbox
20   0  209m  42m  23m S 11.8  4.3   0:07.85 rhythmbox
20   0  209m  42m  23m S  9.0  4.3   0:08.12 rhythmbox
20   0  209m  42m  23m S  7.6  4.3   0:08.35 rhythmbox
20   0  209m  42m  23m S  8.3  4.3   0:08.60 rhythmbox
20   0  209m  42m  23m S  8.3  4.3   0:08.85 rhythmbox
20   0  209m  42m  23m S  8.6  4.3   0:09.11 rhythmbox