Music ?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/5/18 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
> 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

Never compared this before, and I didn't notice, but you are probably right.
Well, if you don't need gap-less playback, I guess the choice is Rhythmbox then.

J.R.