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itunes cpu usage

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apac

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Anyone notice how high the CPU usage is for the itunes program? Right now, in minimized mode, it's using between 60 and 85% of my CPU resources on an athlon xp 2100+. Seems a bit useless if it uses so many resources that I can't do anything else while it's running.
 
It's using between 2% and 4% on my Athlon XP 1600+. Actually, that's everything that's running in the background and iTunes combined.
 
Mine takes about 15-18% CPU on a Celeron 700 playing MP3's. Only about 10-12% Playing 128kbit AAC files though.

One another note.. Winamp 5 is taking about 2-4% CPU time on my PII 400.

Winamp 2.91 with my now dead Turtle Beach Santa Cruz was taking >1% CPU time.. The directsound plugin was unloading most of the work onto the soundcard.
 
Originally posted by: apac
Anyone notice how high the CPU usage is for the itunes program? Right now, in minimized mode, it's using between 60 and 85% of my CPU resources on an athlon xp 2100+. Seems a bit useless if it uses so many resources that I can't do anything else while it's running.
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there's something wrong with your system. In my system, iTunes took 6% of CPU usage to start, then if I let it sit there, it would not use anything even at maximized (i mean, ZERO percent). I tried to play a song, it jumped up and down between 6% and 0% (I guess when it was buffering the song it jumped up to 6%, after that, it went back to 0)

I took a snapshot of Task Manager here
 
everyone is recommending that stupid sound check thing.. it's off by default isn't it? it was for me.... my cpu usage is under 5% pretty much all the time.... and it still hangs sometimes.
 
Mine was up around 30% for a while at work, but then it calmed down to 2%-5% after a few minutes. I dunno what it was doing, but it nevertheless stopped.

ups
 
Originally posted by: Phocas
Mine goes about 0-1 with a 3.0 HT p4...
Great sound!
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you do know that itunes is prolly just the GUI for the real player .. QuickTime 6.4, which is why it installs .. well that's the theory and i believe it.

2nd point. i doubt you can audibly hear the difference in the varying mp3 players too.
 
Originally posted by: Sid59
Originally posted by: Phocas
Mine goes about 0-1 with a 3.0 HT p4...
Great sound!
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2nd point. i doubt you can audibly hear the difference in the varying mp3 players too.
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Huge difference between wmp9, winamp and foobar. Foobar pwns them. Itunes is the happy medium
 
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