[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by gr8sho92

I agree with the points made in this post. These points are surely valid for larger applications that manage a lot of data.

When it comes to streaming shoutcast (which is what this thread is about), this is a very focused and specific task. The music comes down the wire to my computer and I want it to come out the speakers. On some machines I have, they are very resource challenged including my work laptop. It uses over 430MB of RAM just to boot the darn thing and the vast majority of which I have no control over since the asset doesn't belong to me. Using an unobtrusive player that uses a small amount of RAM is very useful in this situation. If you have a very very low-end machine that has a small amount of RAM (say 160MB total), running an application with a small memory requirement is handy.

If you are so inclined Vax and have low-end w* machine around, try XMPlay just for grins.

I want to point out that I DO use iTunes to manage my personal music library because of my iPod. But for listening to AM, XMPlay does the job nicely in a very stealthy way.

Cheers

The claim, as I read it, what that the smaller memory footprint made it better.

I don't know the XMPlay s/w and I guess I never will. I looked to download it and try it, but it is Weendoze only.

The thing to remember is that iTunes is a collections of myriad functions including playing Video. Personally, I would have preferred Apple to divorce the Video from iTunes and create an iVideo/iWatch/iTV application but they did not. It's like a single guy with a sedan. He really only uses one seat but the others are still there. Should he buy a motorcycle? Or, stick with the sedan in case he wants to pick up a videographer, a database manager, a shopper and TV broadcaster?

My first comment about the 100% CPU was from a real customer situation. If you don't understand what the computer metrics you are observing mean, then you'd be best off to stop wasting system resources to collect/view them. The story is quite humorous. If you want to know, I can describe it in another thread or a PM.