Hi all, i was wondering what programs you guys use... Winamp 3 and 5 take up WAY WAY WAY too much memory and piss me off because i want music while gaming and obviously i lag like a mofo... i need help deciding on which program to use best! Please Help
foobar2000 media player classic (i know this one uses little resource)(now its showing 8MB) you can always use the classic skin on winamp5. but still....
I've been using Winamp for so long that I can't even remember when I first started. It just keeps getting better and more feature filled. The new version rips cds and converts them to Mp3, and it also plays several video file formats. To rip and convert however requires that you purchase the deluxe version. The free version is still a good choice for playing mp3s. Another must have freeware choice that I would recommend also does just about everything with audio and its a faster ripper and converter than Winamp. The best part is that it uses Lame to encode. I'm talking about dBpowerAMP, and it's spyware, and Ad free. It requires a little setting up but the instrucions are available on its web site. Get it here. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ _ _X_X_X_X_X_[small]"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)[/small]
you should use coolplayer. It uses the mad decoder and has better sound quality than winamp even when it's using the mad plugin. It's very utilitarian and simple to use. I'd reccomend it. It's also a very small download at only 318 kb EDIT: Another thing. When I run coolplayer it uses very little resources, it doesn't even use 7 megs of my memory _X_X_X_X_X_[small]MY 1337 rig(not really but w/e): Athlon 2200 @2400, 512mb pc133@150, 9600 pro, 120gb western digital hdd, 32x cdrw, 16 dvd, pctv ???? Does it matter, I don't even have the drivers installed cuz it's garbage.[/small]
