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[nila]

Hiya,
I noticed my machine seemed a bit sluggish while I was trying to work so I checked the CPU usage in task manager to see what was using it all and media jukebox is using like 15-20 % even though I have it minimised to the system tray.
I know I might seem like a whine, and I apologise if I do, but I use Media Jukebox to create myself the playlist that I want and then I just want it to sit silently and quietly in the system tray playing that playlist and I wont necessarily interact with it for hours, I'll just let it play my music.
While it's minimised and just playing my songs I'd like it to be using next to no system resources or memory but simply just acting as a simple player like winamp.
I dont know if it's possible, but I'd be willing to put up with a longer amount of time for it to maximise again while it grabbed all the resources it needed again to act as the full jukebox if it could somehow use next to no memory while just playing the songs.
Another option might be to give us the option within it of passing the songs to an external player. Then I could just pass all the playlists I create in MediaJukebox to winamp.

I dont wanna sound like a whine but when I'm workin and programming or designing etc I dont want a lot of my cpu usage going to a simple music player, I just want that to sit there quietly.
I love Media Jukebox for it's ability to organise my music but it is quite resource intensive. At least while it's in the system tray just playing my songs I'd really like it to be in minimum memory usage mode.

Thanks

[claudio]

Your number does not sound right...with the latest 8.0.257 when MJ is minimized in the system tray playing music I only see a usage of 3 to 4 % on my P4 Win2k systemn. To reach the 20 % that you mention I have to have it maximized with the visualization enabled. In my case even with the visualization enabled, the usage goes to a few percent, when I minimize, so I'm not sure what is going on on your system. Try disabling visualization? also look at the diffence in usage between maximized and minimized

Claudio

[nila]

I checked it and I'm getting high in both modes.
I found it pretty wierd too as I dont have many apps at all that take me anywhere near that kind of usage when they're working quietly in the background.

I'm on Win2k pro with 756Mb RAM, 700Mhz AMD