It takes 18K while minimized to notification area. And when that option is checked, every time I open it up, it starts minimized to notification area, requiring additional clicks to open, driving up the time it takes to start to that greater than iTunes.

Seriously? Think I'm going back now. :/ I thought it would use 10% as much RAM as iTunes used, boot up faster, and provide some functionality that iTunes did. I just dunno, after hours more of configuration it still takes up only some 10k less and boots up just as fast, and provides less functionality than iTunes did for me. I just don't see the reason anymore.

I remember somebody saying somewhere that foobar took some 5K or so with visualizations and equalizer on. Well, if visualizations are on, then obviously it's not minimized? Also I don't have an equalizer set at all.

Weird. Foobar still takes in excess of 16K while minimized. And it takes about three and a half seconds to open up, while iTunes takes about three and a half seconds as well.

We'll see, eventually.

But uhm, I have a more important question at this moment in time. The biggest thing you repeatedly mention every time it comes up, is that the most important advantage in foobar is how little RAM it takes in comparison to iTunes.

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What the hell is going on here? Sorry I didn't highlight but iTunes is directly below the foobar service, and it's only about 10K more than foobar. And it boots up just as fast, too!

It is somewhere, but that's irrelevant.

When you sync, does it sync your playlists, too?

And I can just make WAV backups of each and put those on my iPod instead. Or if not, use iTunes to sync.

Oh, hmmm. Tried it, all it did (and I kinda suspected it would) was remove "the" and append it to the end of the artist name. It does the same thing as expected really. I'd greatly prefer it to keep "The Beatles" and just ignore the "The" for sorting without moving it behind. This works every bit as good though, I can google other ways to do it on my own time. Appreciate the help man.

No, I mean you can even sync FLAC files to an iPod?

Also, that seems really simple. I thought I'd have to figure out the syntax and write my own string formatter in there. Thanks once again man!

Even FLAC files? I've got two full albums in FLAC since I had to convert over from WAV to get the tagging right. Oh well, I'm sure it's no issue at all.

Replacing a string can get really damn complicated. Especially when you have all those string formatters with modulos everywhere and heirarchies of quotation marks. I'm sure I can figure it out eventually, though.

Thanks for the help man! Really appreciated.

As very impressive as that is, I still think an additional program to do my research for me is redundant. I like the learning experience of knowing what albums belong to what songs and having a program do that for me would not only make a ****-ton of organizational chaos, but rob the experience that's developed my expansive knowledge on every album I have and what year it was released and what influenced its creation as well as the song order and meanings.

Also, how do I make the column order ignore "The" in artist names? Also, how would I go about syncronizing my iPod with foobar? Is that even possible or heard of at all?

I read up all on it, but it just seemed like a big waste of disc space. I don't want to tag my music with libraries on the internet, I like to learn about them and know the albums they were on. I'm sure the learning curve is one I could get over, but it feels like there's just no reason to even try, my current system is plenty efficient for me.

I highly doubt Relics of the Chozo and Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Orchestrations are on there.

I could also tag my music myself and know that it's correct, rather than dealing with complex organizational hierarchies, even more stupid additional programs required to make my music just play, and the time learning how to get that software to work correctly as well.

Also, there's no way to tag a large portion of my library the conventional way a software would do it- with databases and whatnot. It's not the kind of mainstream music that has a simple Title > Artist > Album format. Or it's on a single. Or it was on fifteen different greatest hits albums.

Couple more things though, how do I go about having the columns ignore the word "The" before an artist name?