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Barack Obama

#21 July 10, 2010, 10:10:35 am

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I have 4gb of ram in my PC which is pretty standard nowadays and I've never had to ever really worry about itunes taking up too much resources while I word process or browse the web. I guess if you're rendering or needing to compile something huge with a lotta linking you probably shouldn't have music programs running in the background but really any computer made in the last three or four years should be able to handle itunes fairly easily.

Last Edit: July 10, 2010, 10:13:09 am by DietCoke

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everyclear

#22 July 10, 2010, 04:25:05 pm

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4gb on my laptop too. Also never had a problem with winamp auto-tag before?

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Alec

#23 July 10, 2010, 05:10:31 pm

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I haven't had any problems with itunes I just prefer to use media players that are just media players and organize my shit in the file system. Same reason I don't use windows media player. It takes longer to load the gui and all the library shit when I could just open the file in VLC or media player classic and have it playing immediately. That's just preference though and itunes isn't really as bad as it used to be from a crashing/burning standpoint.

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c0nfu53d

#24 July 10, 2010, 05:25:07 pm

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Why talk about ipod/itunes? Evangel has said he's not interested.

If you live in the UK check out your local sainsburys I got a Sony NWZ-A728 8gb for £30. If not you can get one from amazon/ebay for about £50-£60

http://www.zdnet.com/reviews/product/mp3-players/sony-walkman-nwz-a728-8gb-black/32893466

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Evangel

#25 July 10, 2010, 07:30:49 pm

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I'm actually leaning toward iPod Classic after DietCoke's comment on sound quality. I'll try running iTunes on my laptop here and see how it runs. Now that I think about it, it really couldn't run much slower than WMP does on here.

Thanks for the input, guys. Any other thoughts would be much appreciated.

keep posting...

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c0nfu53d

#26 July 10, 2010, 08:27:15 pm

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The sound on the ipod classic is great, my friend has one, but to be honest any decent mp3 player will have good sound as long as the headphones are decent. Unfortunatly a lot of mp3 players have shite headphones. Any good brand eg ipod/sony/archos will be ok.

I cant stand ipods cause of the wheel control method. I hate it and would never buy one. ipod touch is another matter but they are expensive and if you want it for music only it's a bit of a waste.

Good luck.

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dada

#27 July 12, 2010, 07:46:39 pm

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Quote from: DietCoke on July 10, 2010, 10:10:35 am

I have 4gb of ram in my PC which is pretty standard nowadays and I've never had to ever really worry about itunes taking up too much resources while I word process or browse the web. I guess if you're rendering or needing to compile something huge with a lotta linking you probably shouldn't have music programs running in the background but really any computer made in the last three or four years should be able to handle itunes fairly easily.

I suppose there's a platform divide here. I'm on Mac OS X, playing music on iTunes (from an iPod), and it's using only 60 MB RAM and 2-3% CPU. And I have about 30 playlists and maybe 10 auto-updated smart playlists running in it too.

Maybe 60 MB is a lot for a music program, but it's not very lightweight anyway.

Last Edit: July 12, 2010, 07:51:14 pm by Dada

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