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You’re highly unlikely to find that switching your media player will affect your battery life. The main determination of that will be whether your software/hardware combo supports GPU acceleration, but even that shouldn’t have too much of an effect. That said, I highly recommend MPCHC and ffdshow-tryouts over anything else (even VLC for a variety of reasons which I won’t go into simply because pretty much nobody will understand them), but I doubt it will have any effect on your battery life, as I don’t believe your media player itself will really affect that to anything other than a negligible degree.

Quoted from Sheridyn

foobar2000 for a (music) media player that doesn’t suck.
http://www.foobar2000.org/

oh, yes. i always read ‘media’ as meaning ‘audio and video’, but it does seem that op is referring exclusively to music…

in which case, i agree. foobar2000 is what i use when i’m on windows (cmus or deadbeef on linux), just does what it says on the tin, low resource usage, sensible defaults.

…. I know that lol, but I thought WMP and itunes were resource heavy so I figured that I’d ask to see if there were any good resource-lite players (with the thought that it would be easier on the battery life, I obviously didn’t expect to see my battery act as if there is no music playing)

thanks for the help guys, I’m for sure going to check foobar out

Quoted from AnimaL

maybe the battery drops cuz IT PLAYS MUSIC?

What a shocking revelation! we must investigate further…

Quoted from octochris

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xion lightweight?

ahahahahaha

this is EXACTLY the response I wanted
thank you Chris