Same problem here. Won't even play audio smoothly there are dropouts every now and again even tried disabling all the suggestions above. Really annoying as it would be an amazing player and I really like the cover art downloading and the context pane for internet options.
What a shame. Get your act together Banshee and I might take you back. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to banshee in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396268 Title: Banshee uses too much CPU Status in Banshee Music Player: Confirmed Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: banshee While playing and minimized to the system tray, Banshee uses 65-70% CPU and also pushes pulseaudio CPU usage up to around 30%. Additionally, when using "next" or "previous" buttons Banshee CPU usage goes up to 150%. Importing approximately 6000 songs took over 20 minutes, although the first 3000 or so only took about 5 minutes. System: P4 2.8 Ghz with hyperthreading, 2GB RAM Tested with latest Banshee from Jaunty repos and also the Banshee Team PPA version. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/banshee/+bug/396268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
