How to reduce parole's loading of the system?

[Genghis Khan]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:59:18 +0100
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:38:41 +0100
> Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:06:19AM +0300, gymka wrote:
> > > > (audacious seems to use less memory at startup compared to
> > > > Parole BTW. Maybe it will use less CPU cycles too.)
> > > > 
> > > > Just my 2 cents.
> > > 
> > > if you need play internet streams and you care about resources use
> > > http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/ it plays all formats and uses
> > > not much resources, definetely less then audacious, but it not
> > > plays local files.
> > > 
> > Brilliant!  Exactly what I want (well, nearly, I'd prefer a command
> > line application)
> 
> I use mplayer -playlist on the command line,it shows as
> 0.00% wcpu in top on my desktop.  
> 

I use Cmus, MOC, MPD. As far as I know, Cmus handles most of the
playlist formats. I, usually, copy the list of URL streams to an .m3u
playlist file and then play it with MOC or MPD.

http://cmus.sourceforge.net/
http://moc.daper.net/
http://musicpd.org/