Not exactly a gaming question but sort of...

[techgamer]

Does anyone use anything other than iTunes as a background music player when gaming. iTunes seems to be too memory intensive for my likings and slows gameplay down sometimes. What else is there? Thanks.

 

[Anubis]

im pretty sure lots of people dont use itunes as its pure fing shit

i use winamp, works fine

 

[skace]

Foobar2k is a small footprint player, good for playing in the background.

 

[pontifex]

i use winamp also.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: pontifex
i use winamp also.

Winamp FTW. The 10th ann edition is freaking sweet.

 

[CKent]

Foobar here too. Winamp isn't bad, but foobar is awesome imo. As bad as it is, itunes shouldn't be hogging your system resources to the point it has a noticable effect on games.

 

[ZappDogg]

Winamp.

 

[pcslookout]

VLC media player. Best media player known to man and requires 0 codecs for any music.

 

[Ika]

Foobar if I ever have music playing. It plays well with my keyboard too, and I like that. Also I can set Foobar to play from my X-Fi and Vent to play and record from my AV710...

 

[BladeVenom]

I just checked VLC with a couple of MP3s; it seems to take less than 12mb of memory and uses less than 1% of CPU cycles.

After a game starts up, usually the disc can be removed so you can insert a music CD.

 

[shortylickens]

The only game in which I seem to have an interest in playing my own music is Test Drive Unlimited and it includes its own music player.

If I were to use an outside program it would be VLC.