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General Discussion / WMA ?

« on: May 10, 2020, 03:43:45 PM »

Is there a way to use WACUP to encode files to WMA? How about WMA Lossless?

Sorry if it is there and I just didn't see it.

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Skins / Re: Big Bento Modern - final release v1.13

« on: May 26, 2019, 05:42:03 PM »

Had a quick look online, it seems that your laptops has 32GB of eMMC storage. It has 1 SODIMM slot that takes up to 4GB DDR3L.

I would strongly recommend upgrading the RAM to the 4GB.

You could also look into ways of disabling unnecessary Windows features. You can look here for some tips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVy4GAtkh7Q

The issue as other have mentioned is that Windows will be swapping memory to disk, which will hurt performance. It doesn't have sufficient memory to store the OS as well as the applications you might want to run such as WACUP or a web browser.

Thanks for your reply. This laptop may be a bit under powered, but no other program I use operates as slowly as Winamp/Wacup using the modern Bento skin. The regular skins do fine, browsers are quick as are programs like LibreOffice, so I don't know what to say.

In the end it is all OK. I have no problems with using the classic or Big Bento or older Winamp Modern skins. Not losing any sleep over it.

Thanks again.

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Skins / Re: Big Bento Modern - final release v1.13

« on: May 03, 2019, 08:55:38 PM »

Sure. It is a Dell Inspiron 14 Model 3452.

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Skins / Re: Big Bento Modern - final release v1.13

« on: May 03, 2019, 05:24:57 PM »

I may have been wrong about the type of drive in the laptop. Instead of SSD does MMC make more sense? Either way, it is one of the small ones they put in these things. Like 32gb small.

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Skins / Re: Big Bento Modern - final release v1.13

« on: May 03, 2019, 01:28:52 PM »

Thanks to both of you for your responses. A bit more information about the laptop - It has a 1.6ghz intel celeron processor and , the drive is not a "spinner", but rather one of the small drives that most laptops come with these days. Can't think of exactly what they call them these days but I think SSD comes to mind?

Anyway, with the Classic skin, it loads in about 4 seconds. When playing music, task manager shows WACUP barely using any CPU or memory resources. With that in mind, I have to think it is not "stressing" the CPU or RAM but rather is taxing the machines graphics capabilities? I guess another thing to consider is my music (a bit more than 5000 songs, split between FLAC and MP3) is stored on a USB 3 thumb drive. Once loaded the music is accessed very quickly so I don't think the program is waiting on that.

Anyway, thanks again for the work you guys do on all of this.

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Skins / Re: Big Bento Modern - final release v1.13

« on: May 02, 2019, 07:25:58 PM »

I have just started (okay, maybe a week ago) using WACUP and really like it so far. I also like the looks of the Big Bento Modern skin, but have one problem. On my meager laptop it takes about 25 seconds or so to load the program when using this skin. Other skins (Big Bento regular, or Classic or Modern skin) might take about 9 seconds or so. Is there anything I can do to speed up the loading of this skin? I have tried disabling various plug-ins just in case they were contributing to this. Now granted, my laptop is not the speediest and has some age on it, but it is what I have. Would increasing the RAM help any? It only has 2gb but can be upgraded to 4gb if that helps.