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Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…
Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…
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This. I'm honestly not quite sure what kind of supercomputer would be needed to have Teams not lag. I'm kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy "modern workload" (though I must say I don't do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.
I use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on. Returning to the computer, everything is dog slow for several minutes. Drives me crazy. The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through noti…
Foobar is the "new" Winamp, it has been for 15years+ https://www.foobar2000.org/
I've used both Foobar and MusicBee (on Windows) and personally I prefer MusicBee's interface. It works well with my library of 21k files - not sure how it performs with libraries much larger. https://getmusicbee.com/
Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…
This. I'm honestly not quite sure what kind of supercomputer would be needed to have Teams not lag. I'm kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy "modern workload" (though I must say I don't do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.
Foobar is the "new" Winamp, it has been for 15years+ https://www.foobar2000.org/
Foobar didn't really scratch the same itch for me as Winamp. Foobar felt more like it wanted to ingest/organize my entire library, which never appealed to me because my library was 1TB+ and it would take a lifetime to fix every album with some bad tags. Winamp much better fit my workflow, which is: I wanna right-click a folder on my desktop that houses the specific album I want to play, click "Play in Winamp", and ha…
I remember there were even faster ways to "playlistify" directory structure (as I wrote around here [1]).
Sorry this is a bit off topic, but I read OPs username as I_am_a_lama, missed opportunity op :( [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF-nRS_CWM
Foobar is the "new" Winamp, it has been for 15years+ https://www.foobar2000.org/
Foobar didn't really scratch the same itch for me as Winamp. Foobar felt more like it wanted to ingest/organize my entire library, which never appealed to me because my library was 1TB+ and it would take a lifetime to fix every album with some bad tags. Winamp much better fit my workflow, which is: I wanna right-click a folder on my desktop that houses the specific album I want to play, click "Play in Winamp", and ha…
- Install
- Turn off visualization
- Drag and drop folder full of audio on the main window
That's one of the things I like about it the most: I do a ton of reorganization of my audio, so the fact that foobar can run in 'dumb' mode is a godsend.
Foobar is the "new" Winamp, it has been for 15years+ https://www.foobar2000.org/
+1 for Foobar2000 Bonus point: https://www.foobar2000.org/mac (MacOS version) No idea if there are some missing features that are exists on Windows version.