[LAU] use your pc as an music player (and safe energy)

Justin Smith noisesmith at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 14:53:40 EDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
> Justin Smith wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Grammostola Rosea
>> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening
>>> to music. I guess this are just modern times....
>>>
>>> But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less
>>> important  money  just disappears...
>>>
>>> So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc.
>>> Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green'
>>> distro's?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> \r
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>>
>> One possibility is using applications that use less CPU, the harder
>> your CPU works, the more energy it turns in to waste heat. For this,
>> avoid things written in dynamic languages, and in general try to use
>> the smallest and most efficient program for a given task (you could
>> look at applications recommended for older/slower computers like
>> blackbox / evilwm / rox-filer / xfce / lxde / etc. and using a command
>> line application whenever possible rather than a full GUI will save a
>> large amount of CPU / disk usage as well.
>>
>>
> Is there a command line multimedia music player?
>
> \r
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If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know, for command
line audio players there are quite a few, including xmms2 which is a
demon that can be controlled from the command line and juke, which is
an audio player with a curses frontend.



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