[Asmo]

my foobar takes up normally 20-30% playing mp3/ape/flac etc

thats with my 1212m re-sampling to 192khz and 24 padded to 32 bit playback.

on my amd athlon 2400+.

 

[gaboo]

APE (de)compression cpu usage depends a lot on compression level.
CPU usage percentages mean nothing w/o that.

Here are couple of independent benchmarks and here are some more.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

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Originally Posted by Asmo my foobar takes up normally 20-30% playing mp3/ape/flac etc thats with my 1212m re-sampling to 192khz and 24 padded to 32 bit playback. on my amd athlon 2400+.

That sounds about right, and it's mostly due to the upsampling.

 

[Distroyed]

My cpu usage is within 1% difference between ape and flac. I've had problems with Flac's historically. A few wouldnt play in foobar but would in Winamp, and they frequently crash audio listing programs like MAC. Hence, Ape for me.

 

[Permonic]

Thanks gaboo for the links with comparisons. Now it makes sense and clears my problem. All my .ape files are encoded with "extra high" compression level. I did the test by myself and encoded several tracks with different levels: "fast" level uses only 5-6% of CPU, while "insane" uses up to 60% of CPU.

Time to decode and encode my whole CD collection.......

 

[Distroyed]

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Originally Posted by Permonic Time to decode and encode my whole CD collection.......

It will encode a lot faster this time at least