WinAmp Question

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited October 2003 in Nerdery
I just DLed WA3, never really used WA period. But I have seen people with WA docked at the top of their screen out of the way. How do you do that?

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  • PreacherPreacher Potomac, MD Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I think you are referring to the MMD skin. It can be found here:

    http://www.winamp.com/skins/detail.jhtml?componentId=122902
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Ram...Squandered..System resources..Decreasing. Winamp3...Insatiable desire for...Memory.
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited October 2003
    winamp 2.91 is where it's at rwb... ditch wa3
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    haha@thrax. I used to agree, but right now I am running EZLiteStep, WinAmp3(playing my Playlist), MyIE2, F@H, MSN Messenger, Studio, and of course all the Winders appz and yet I am only using 134MB according to my Task Manager. I just tunred off F@H and my systems keeps at 2-3%(mind you I am playing music and typing this at the same time.

    My Memory is also at 112MB right now with F@H off, and... frankly I don't care anymore. If I don't see any slowdown I am fine, I am about to do some work in Illustrator and Photoshop for school too witha ll this running.

    It was the MMD3 Skin, thanks, I even had this once before when I last did use WA.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited October 2003
    If someone is worried about the few extra MB that WA3 uses TODAY (not 2, 3 or more years ago) then he needs a new system. Back in the day I would not use programs that used more RAM than necessary, but now I have 1GB of RAM, I can spare 6 megs for a program I really like.

    // Edit: SCRATCH THAT. WA3 isn't even taking up 5MB on my system, much less 6MB more than WA2. My bad.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    a2jfreak said
    If someone is worried about the few extra MB that WA3 uses TODAY (not 2, 3 or more years ago) then he needs a new system. Back in the day I would not use programs that used more RAM than necessary, but now I have 1GB of RAM, I can spare 6 megs for a program I really like.

    // Edit: SCRATCH THAT. WA3 isn't even taking up 5MB on my system, much less 6MB more than WA2. My bad.

    Same here, 1GB of RAM. I am about to run a test to show off my new system :D
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    With:
    F@H
    Adobe Illustrator
    MyIE2
    WinAmp3 playing a Playlist
    EZLiteStep
    MSN Messenger
    Studio

    All running in thebackground I got 12,563 in 3D Mark 2k1 and I usually get 14K.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Fresh install of Winamp3, using MMD3 skin. No playlist loaded. Installed the program, launched it immediately, counted to 30 and then took a screenshot of the task manager. Six megs my ass.

    2 x CMX512-3500C2PT.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    have winamp installed as soon as i install windows, and took this screen shot after i finished playing one song on it.
    not 6meg, but it's not 30some megs like thrax.

    edit/ BTW it is WITH MMD3 skin.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    No clue Thrax...
    I did a test and that program studio I spoke of is appearently WinAmp. Big Deal 9MB or whatever. Windows Media Player takes up more.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Here it is without the MMD3 skin.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Hrm, I honestly wouldn't know why thrax. I didn't see what I was at before I started playing with my Player. I know that I changed some settings though, perhaps that is the difference? But you can see WMP9 takes up almost 17MB on my system.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited October 2003
    Ok, here's my taskmanager showing the memory usage of winamp.exe (Winamp2) and winamp3.exe (Winamp3).

    The memory usage for WA3 is about 3x that of WA2.
    The VM usage is much more substantial, but I've got enough RAM that I don't care. The niceties of WA3 make it worth it to me. Don't need/want those features? Stick w/ WA2. Both serve a purpose. For me, WA3 is what I prefer and it's worth the extra memory.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Kinda off topic, but does anyone have the transparency plug-in for Winamp2? Someone had it a while back and I really dig it, but since my old harddrive totally crapped out, I lost it.

    If anyone has it, could you PM me a link where I can download it please?
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited October 2003
    I post it here, rather than PM so that others might benefit.
    http://www.draconpern.com/TransparentFX/

    Hope that's what you were talking about.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I think thats it. Thanks! :thumbsup:
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2003
    WinAMP 2.91 With all its windows open uses as much memory as WinAMP 3 with just the player open.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2003
    Oh, almost forgot the pic.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    even if it is 30 megs whats that if you have 1 gig??
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2003
    Gnomewizardd said
    even if it is 30 megs whats that if you have 1 gig??

    Its nothing when you have 1GB of RAM, but if it uses that much memory with one window open, it shows how inefficient it is.
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