Another day another Frustration

Originally posted by The Slow Pawn
Thanks for all your answers

a) I've got 512 MB of Ram (one chip)
b) Angie - My Music is all sorted, no doubles and I want to keep all of it
c) I 'only' have full albums which sit in seperate folders, which in turn, sit in seperate 'Artist/Band' folders

I'll give Win-Amp a try

Boris

Lucky you bought all the music. Mediaplayer is the biggest piece of spyware out there. It regularly sends reports to M$ detailing what you are opening using Mediaplayer.

Why do you want to open 4000+ songs at any one time anyway?

D

Originally posted by arrakis
If you are running WinXP you need 500 megs of memory.

Wrong.
I run Win XP Pro on an AMD Athlon 800 with 256 MB of RAM. Mine runs perfect, I restart it about once a week, no problem.

Dude, use Winamp, WMP is crap. V5 has all the features you might need and more over media player.
I have about 8000 songs and don't have any problems with it...

Originally posted by Crowley
Wrong.
I run Win XP Pro on an AMD Athlon 800 with 256 MB of RAM. Mine runs perfect, I restart it about once a week, no problem.

Dude, use Winamp, WMP is crap. V5 has all the features you might need and more over media player.
I have about 8000 songs and don't have any problems with it...

Well, when I contacted the Microsoft help team they told me that WinXP requires about 200 megs. So your system is buffering data to the hard drive! You wouldn't know the difference if you aren't using a program that requires alot of memory... But I can guarantee you - you can't even play any of the top games. 🙁

Originally posted by arrakis
Well, when I contacted the Microsoft help team they told me that WinXP requires about 200 megs. So your system is buffering data to the hard drive! You wouldn't know the difference if you aren't using a program that requires alot of memory... But I can guarantee you - you can't even play any of the top games. 🙁

Yup. It's commonly called virtual memory.
You've always needed a good PC with lots of RAM and a quick CPU to play the top games. Games use up lots of resources - If you don't play games you don't need all that though.

The point of this thread isn't gaming though, so, you're wrong.

Originally posted by Crowley
Wrong.
I run Win XP Pro on an AMD Athlon 800 with 256 MB of RAM. Mine runs perfect, I restart it about once a week, no problem.

Dude, use Winamp, WMP is crap. V5 has all the features you might need and more over media player.
I have about 8000 songs and don't have any problems with it...

What is it - Win Amp (version 5)

Media player is def. doing my heading so I'll switch once I'm back from Manchester

See ya later

Boris