gentk

Member since: Dec 29th, 2007

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Excellent free burning program ImgBurn turns 2.5 (Download Squad)

Jul 29th 2009 6:26AM My bad, adding multiple files/folders still sucks in ImgBurn.

oh well, infraRecorder will do for that kind of stuff.

Excellent free burning program ImgBurn turns 2.5 (Download Squad)

Jul 28th 2009 4:57AM Last time i used it, CDBurnerXP was using significantly more resources than any other burner, very high CPU usage... and the problem was acknowledged by the developer, don't know if it has been fixed yet.

That's what I was using, but i've had to do with ImgBurn and InfraRecorder since... ImgBurn is the most stable and reliable of them all.

But I use InfraRecorder from time to time as it is easier to build folder structures (like CDBurnerXP), select multiple files/folders at the same time etc.

Looks like the latest ImgBurn added this option, meaning I'll probably only use it exclusively now. :D

Songbird 0.4 developer preview released (Download Squad)

Dec 29th 2007 12:22PM Is the memory and cpu usage any better?

I remember the previous versions taking up to 100 mb of RAM just after a few actions... I guess one of the downsides of being "mozilla based". The Cpu usage was quite high in comparison to other players too.

For regular music playing that's unacceptable really. Right now my foobar2000 is taking less than 3mb of RAM and extremely low CPU usage with a few active DSPs (mostly for better quality on headphones). But yes foobar2000's interface can be a bitch to set up, but I now have something I'm happy with.

All of this makes switching to Songbird unlikely for me, as the developers have said resource usage isn't going to get much better as a result of it being a XUL-based app. It is a good concept though, but simply playing music isn't one of its strong points right now.