Justin Smith wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Grammostola Rosea > <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Justin Smith wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Grammostola Rosea >>> <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> Music is digitalized now and so I use more and more my pc for listening >>>> to music. I guess this are just modern times.... >>>> >>>> But this are also the times of a planet what get destroyed and less >>>> important money just disappears... >>>> >>>> So I want to save as much energy as possible without buying another pc. >>>> Is there a way to handle this? What are the tricks or are there 'green' >>>> distro's? >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> >>>> \r >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Linux-audio-user mailing list >>>> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >>>> >>>> >>> One possibility is using applications that use less CPU, the harder >>> your CPU works, the more energy it turns in to waste heat. For this, >>> avoid things written in dynamic languages, and in general try to use >>> the smallest and most efficient program for a given task (you could >>> look at applications recommended for older/slower computers like >>> blackbox / evilwm / rox-filer / xfce / lxde / etc. and using a command >>> line application whenever possible rather than a full GUI will save a >>> large amount of CPU / disk usage as well. >>> >>> >> Is there a command line multimedia music player? >> > > If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is > mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know, mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on Linux Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular playlist formats. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
