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Hi all! Looking for a nice, lightweight recommendation for a music player! I use VLC for video, but am looking for a nice lightweight music play to listen to my tunes while working away on stuff that uses minimal RAM. My laptop is an HP Stream 13, so it has a hard-soldered 2GB of RAM, which isn't a lot in this day and age.

I usually use Clementine as I love it and use it on my HTPC and my other laptop, but was curious if there was anything else out there that was lighter on resources but still has a media library function :)

Cheers and thanks!

You (and most people) won't believe this but Vlc is the lightest of all I tried (both looking at ram and cpu) when playing music. (even tried MPCHC on Win.) (and tried even the terminal ones). I just use the file manager as the playlist and click one by one :) (old fashioned) .. Yes, there's also a playlist feature in Vic..

Also it has a compressor feature that you can only have with 3rd party applications (which are not that simple and light). That's not only to fix loud parts but also makes bad recordings or low sounds more hear-able , vivid (without distorting). So, listening to music with vlc is really more tasteful to me.. No matter classical music or country :)

Meanwhile my ram is also 2GB DDR2 :)
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But if you necessarily want something like Clementine: Deadbeef or Audacious .. I like Deadbeef but it was skipping sound (a long term known bug) in my case ...

xmms is stupid light.

Was that antiX's default one? (I remember trying them)

FWIW I use DeadBeef (music) and Celluloid (Youtube Video Music).

Huckleberry Finn wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 9:27 am Was that antiX's default one? (I remember trying them)

yes

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 9:25 am xmms is stupid light.

True, but no Media Library function as far as I know (unless I am misremembering?) which, as I mentioned, I would prefer to have! I used it before on an Intel Atom netbook several years ago though...can confirm it's stupid light!

manyroads wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 9:29 am FWIW I use DeadBeef (music) and Celluloid (Youtube Video Music).

Sadly, pretty sure that DeedBeef doesn't have a Media Library function either, which I would like to have :(

How resource heavy is Clementine actually? It may be like the VLC thing that Huck mentioned where you'd assume it's a resource hog because it's so fully featured but may not be..?

It is quite possible for a big and popular fully matured application with a full developer team to have better attention paid to optimization than a tiny single developer app sometimes.. just sayin'

Pragha?

It's pretty light, has music library function, and I find the default sound (on my humble speakers ) good. I've used it in various of my distros for at least 5 years. Not to say I don't use Clementine as well; the latter is just old reliable and I've never had issues with it.