For some reason a few weeks ago I loaded Nullsoft Winamp 5.52 on my computer. I think that it might have been to listen to on-line country music radio, but I can’t remember…
Last night I was using it to listen to some podcasts and I had a look at the memory usage for Winamp in Windows Task Manager (you can do this by right clicking on the Task Bar and clicking on Task Manager). The memory usage in Winamp seemed pretty low at under 10MB, so I closed Winamp and opened up a podcast in Windows Media Player 11.
I had a look at the memory usage for Windows Media Player 11 and it was sitting at about 18MB, almost twice what Winamp had been using to play a podcast.
So now my primary media player is Nullsoft Winamp 5.52.
Another nice feature is that Winamp integrates into Juice, which I use to download my podcasts. When I click on “Play episode in media player” in Juice the podcast now gets added to the playlist in Winamp. This makes it easy to que up podcasts for listening, whereas when I was using Windows Media Player it would automatically start playing the podcast I selected, rather than que it up after the one I was currently listening to.
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