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I'm running Ubuntu Lucid on my netbook, and I like listening to music while doing other stuff. Problem is: Rhythmbox is constantly consuming 7-9% of my CPU while it's playing. Now, 9% might not seem like much, but it's more than double the sum of all other processes, and it's a battery killer.
Now, I know that any music player will be active (not idle) while playing, and thus will consume more CPU power than idle processes. But I'd still like to know if there's a good music player for Ubuntu that's light on CPU.
I hate to jump in an a really old topic, but since it pops up in the search engines when I was looking for an alternative - I would highly recommend DeadBeef. It's super-light-weight in comparison to Rhythmbox and is packed with features. It's kind of like the "foobar" of linux. On my system it's running 4% CPU 0.3% memory according to $top – Brandon Bertelsen – 2013-03-18T16:59:14.473