Cornwalled Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hey Guys, Anyone else "upgrade" to iTunes 7.0 recently? I just got it today, and wish I hadn't. It sucks 70% of my CPU just to play a file!! As a result, I can't navigate menus at all, without a 30 second delay on each action. iTunes was always SO inefficient compared to winamp, but I liked the functionality it offered. However, with the routine skips and dropouts that iTunes specializes in lately (last version was faster but still skipped) I have been forced to use better designed software (winamp). Only program I've seen that's worse is musicmatch jukebox. Unless you have about a 2.8 GHz with about a gig of ram, that prog won't even move! Granted I'm using a P4 1.40 GHz, but you shouldn't need a $2,000 computer just to play some music, right? Anyone else agree that music software is getting bloated and saps way too much resources? I used to use an old P2 system with winamp to play tunes and it worked fine! -Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEC Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Don't know about the PC version, but on a Mac even an old slow mac, iTunes 7 does everything perfectly. You might want to think about de-fragmenting your hard drive. Bob Crites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbflash Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I loaded on my MAC G5 Saturday and don't see any problems yet. It went thru 3000 songs checking for "gapless" in less than a couple of minutes. I attached my ipod to burn a couple CD's yesterday and no problems. I don't have an itunes account (by choice) so I haven't loaded the artwork, which I don't think I will, but I don't think I would have any trouble. I'm looking forward to see if it does indeed loads songs gapless. There are a few live albums I want to burn, but I hate that the tracks don't play seamless. I hate that second of delay between songs. Hope it works for you. Danny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornwalled Posted September 18, 2006 Author Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hey Guys, Well as it turns out, it was the "scanning for gapless playback" that was slowing things down. Once that completed, I was alright. It's just that I had 2400 songs for it to scan, so it took a while. -Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 cornwalled, if you want to hear alot better on winamp use a plugin called mad. "mad plugin" that is a codec for winamp and foobar that sounds really really improved over the stock codec. Remember to turn the regular codec off too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 No problems noticed here I use iTunes on two of my PC's and all runns smoothly.Well with a Crore 2 Duo running at 3.2Ghz it better.My A64 FX60 does a nice job on the AMD side. [] Seriously iTunes is optimised for Mac OS and you would be better with WINAMP and the MAD plugin like Jay pointed.I also use Foobar,so light a Pentium 1 can run it in a speedy way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raider Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 There are a lot radio stations in the not so distant past that would have liked to have 2400 song selections . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornwalled Posted September 18, 2006 Author Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hey Guys, According to preliminary research, the MAD plugin is only for verions of winamp before 3. I'm running 5, so I doubt MAD is going to work for me. Also, if I remember correctly, winamp's stock decoder improved considerably over the years of 2.x, such that MAD really wasn't as important, hence the reason they didn't write for anything later. Am I correct in this? -Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 winamp 5.0 works with 2.0 codecs winamp 3 was a mistake..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmikid Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Sorry small hijack... For some reason the podcast downloading stops many times. If I leave my pc on for the rest of the day sometimes it did load them after all. Sometimes it does work well, but mostly not. For me it's just one of those mysteries caused by the ghosts that seem to roam my pc. Secondly, it loads the covers with the same unwillingness... Suggestions? Thanks, Tim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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