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Winamp Finally Comes to Mac, Bringing Easy Android Music Syncing

wikus said:
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On a side note, I did make myself clear in order to be objective and relevant that the comparison between Vox and iTunes was merely based on simple functions such playing an mp3 file... something iTunes struggles to do efficiently.
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Vox is just a sound file player with very minimal UI, iTunes on the other hand is not just a sound player.


DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? You can't say iTunes is inefficient just because some small app uses less memory for one and in the case of Vox sole function of playing sound files.

Stop trolling.
 
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nitro912gr said:
You need to read your link first...
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Thanks Nitro, I did.
As you rightly point out, it's their name to use if they want. I simply meant that it had been used already. Sorry if my brevity made that unclear!
 
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Jerome Morrow said:
2 TB library loaded.

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iTunes doesn't even smell like a resource hog. Damn thing is only in your head.
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Exactly...on mine it consumes 1% of the CPU with just some 200MB of RAM use...iTunes is one of the BEST and most optimized programs on the Mac, despite its comprehensive feature set/extensive content/syncing abilities. To compare its overall polish with WMP is a joke, seriously.

Having said that, I use the Mac version, of course...couldn't touch Windows with a 1000-foot pole.
 
BRLawyer said:
Exactly...on mine it consumes 1% of the CPU with just some 200MB of RAM use...iTunes is one of the BEST and most optimized programs on the Mac, despite its comprehensive feature set/extensive content/syncing abilities. To compare its overall polish with WMP is a joke, seriously.

Having said that, I use the Mac version, of course...couldn't touch Windows with a 1000-foot pole.
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Indeed it's one of the best apps i've ever used.
 
I only used Winamp for its visualizers; notably MilkDrop.

No visualizers in this release at all. Sucks..
 
You guys realize you're arguing about an app that consumes 150mb on what 2-4GB RAM systems?

iTunes can be considered bloated feature wise if you don't use all the features but it's definitely not bloated RAM wise for all it does.
 
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QuarterSwede said:
You guys realize your arguing about an app that consumes 150mb on what 2-4GB RAM systems?

iTunes can be considered bloated feature wise if you don't use all the features but it's definitely not bloated RAM wise for all it does.
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You'd think those who were complaining were still running machines with 128mb of ram.
 
ChazUK said:
You'd think those who were complaining were still running machines with 128mb of ram.
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I code Atmel microcontrollers in my spare time. The ATtiny85, for example, has 8192 bytes of flash for code and 512 bytes of SRAM for data.

At 15MB, Vox is an audio-only player.
At 150MB, iTunes is a full-featured media manager/player/syncing/store.

But just so you know, some people can make MP3 decoders running on that ATtiny85, so by comparison saying that Vox is bloated would be an understatement. ;)

So, there's no point in trying to compare Vox and iTunes because they don't do the same things, it's like comparing apples and oranges.

Neither is bloated for what they do.
 
All you who are complaining of lackluster feature set:

This is a "Sync Beta", that is, it is only released to test the Syncing functions. Seems like many read it "Winamp for Mac Sync - Beta".

If they only want to try the Sync functions, of course they aren't going to add a bunch of other features that might or might not work as they should.
 
So all those WinAmp DJs that still use it to mix music in Czech republic can finally move to the Mac because of the cool factor? I can't wait to see that happening..:--)
 
You guys with the low RAM usage are lucky! :D I have a 32 GB library, and two iOS devices connected to it for wireless sync. Music is also playing right now.
 

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I still use Winamp on Windows. :D

Glad to see it on the Mac, albeit somewhat limited in terms of functionality when compared to the Windows version.
 
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wow, I haven't used winamp since like 2000, I still remember making skins for it.
 
Now this, like others have said, is a true blast from the past.
I won't download it, because I won't use it, but it sure is nice to see a familiar name again.

That used to be the only application that would allow to play music AND do something else at the same time on one of my old Windows Laptops...

Back when I used to think 128kbps MP3's were high quality... Oh how times change.
 
i had to check the date of the post. thought maybe this was an old thread brought back from the dead.

I wonder why they released this now. seems a bit late.
 
Jerome Morrow said:
If you had ability to understand i'd try, but why bother. iTunes is more than a player, you can't compare media manager and sync utility with an app like Vox which is made of small HUD and basically has no interface.

If you can't compare applications on the same terms then don't and stop this BS.
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Why would iTunes load "support" for iPods/iPhones/iPads you don't own ? Surely Apple recognizes the grace and flexibility of runtime loading of components so as to limit memory footprint by not actively loading and using parts of the code the user doesn't actually need. I think the malloc() syscall is quite old and it came along with free(). I'm pretty sure Apple knows about these.

And frankly, what does having a 35 Gig music library matter ? You think iTunes loads more than just the meta data/file names ? At a few bytes per song of multiple MBs, your 35 Gig quickly melts away to basically nothing as far as memory foot print goes. iTunes will load the actual music data when you play it.

So really, 135 MB for a music organiser/player is ludicrous. All the features can be runtime loaded/de-loaded on a per use basis. No need to load in syncing at start up, just have a watcher thread for devices that get plugged in and load appropriate support when it's required. Same for the store parts, you can release the webkit engine when it's not in active use and unload the library.
 
You know, for such an old piece of software, it's sad... That after all these years, Milkdrop still beats the pants off of any iTunes visualizers.

I actually use Winamp within Parallels, and still love the visualizers. :D
 
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