hi there, one of my continuing quests on linux is trying to find a suitable mp3 player to ... play my mp3's. what i need is something like amarok (my favourite), rhythmbox or muine that has multiple output interfaces; intuitive mp3 browser/library; cover art display; slick interface; and system tray/plugin support. the thing is, it's not hard to find these programs (they are listed above), but they are all extremely unstable (i think gstreamer could be to blame) and i find that they all put quite a load on the processor. i'm regularly hitting a cpu temperature of 63 degrees just by playing back mp3's ... i think this is quite a high temperature to be running at (increasing, under further load to about 70 degrees - this is on a cool day) just to be playing mp3's. what are other people's experiences here? am i being too paranoid? due to the instability of most players that incorporate user-friendly mp3 library browsers, i've mainly been using beep-media-player as far as linux apps go, and it's cool cos it allows you to configure the playback samplerate for mp3's. but, even at 22050 sampling rate, i reach temp of - at most - 60 degrees. however, i am now using winamp under wine, and configuring it to the same sample rate yields max cpu temperature of 54 degrees - a much more comfortable level for me. as a comparison, when doing real-time recording with jack, i can have a few clients, a vst plugin, and recording happening while never going far from about 65 degrees ... are the mp3 decoders/streamers in linux really crap, or do i need to look at better cooling for my cpu/motherboard? shayne
