Mac AMP Lite X (MaltX)

[AG3]

This app is cool , only thing not cool is it expires 14 days, they should make it free forever but u pay for pro features.
Would like an equalizer.

Mpegtoaster is KING of lo cpu usage but also KING of boring.

Audion is where my heart is, but this app is cool too, I will use it next to Audion with its superior equalizer.
Audion features SID playback which sold me first on this app.


BTW Audion web page and how it shows previews for skins "faces" is so mac like and easy, noone has provided that service so far.

[ddma]

Originally posted by fryke
What do you mean, your sound is skipping? I'm using iTunes 2 on my TiBook 500, and sound never skips while doing other things...

My TiBook 667's sound sometimes does skipping while playing iTunes (while i am running any other application).

[Krevinek]

Oh, I like the Ogg support MaltX has over mpegToaster (although mpegToaster is pretty darn lightweight and nice, it doesn't play my growing collection of oggs)

[serpicolugnut]

iTunes (and other MP3 players) skips only when I surf the web. In IE, they will skip alot. In Mozilla, just a little bit. In Navigator and OmniWeb, it's almost non-existant.

It doesn't seem to do this at all when using any other apps, even when using something like Photoshop while working on a large file. Go figure...

Perhaps skipping isn't the correct word though. It's actually more of a stuttering of playback.

Very annoying, and it happens on both my Macs (see below)...

[fryke]

how can an mp3 player be boring? what *i* need from an mp3 player is to have a nice playlist function and then let it 'play' all day. it's the choice of *sound* that makes my mp3 player fun and interesting. and iTunes does *this* job very, very well... I really can get iTunes to skip sound only when starting Photoshop.

[~~NeYo~~]

Eww! it Looks CRAP! lol! ... Man, why Would you wanna Ditch iTunes For that?! hmmm...

hehe! ... ( can Someone, plz mail me a mac!? ANY MAC! )

NeYo

[Krevinek]

Here is why I ditched iTunes: 30-40% CPU usage and no Ogg support, couldn't burn to my SCSI CD-RW since I am an unsupported hardware.

MaltX on the other hand is very lightweight, does what I want it to, and does it fairly well. Now if the price issue could be resolved (there are NO FREE OGG PLAYERS FOR X YET), I would be in heaven. (Hey, I am all for them making a bit of money, but 12$ for a rather basic MP3/Ogg player? Why not a Lite/Pro version?)

I need Ogg support without the massive CPU headache iTunes is.

[simX]

What in the world are you guys doing to iTunes to make it use 30-40% of the CPU regularly?? Are you moving the window around a lot, or zooming it all the time?

iTunes for me, when in the background, only uses up 10-20% of the CPU when playing, and virtually none when not playing. This is perfectly acceptable, and I'm on an almost 2-year-old machine (that's not old by any means, but it still runs Mac OS X like a champ).