If you're using a low quality source then of course the quality is not going to be good. Groove on the other hand, same playlist, same song, took up around 200mb of ram.įoobar is the only other alternative here but I don't think it can match the resource usage of Aimp even on the default skin but I do admit it's been several years since I used it so maybe it's gotten lighter.Īnd when it really comes down to it, audio quality is only going to be as good as the source. With a 6000 song playlist while playing a song it uses roughly 50mb of ram and has some of the best audio quality out there for an audio player. Especially if you're worried about resource usage. I have had them both running at once - Groove playing audio while VLC plays video neither dropped a note.)Īimp 4 > everything else. VLC is better at video (which Groove Music can play in most formats) - which is also why VLC and Groove currently co-exist. That last was a shocker, but that is quite easily checkable via Task Manager. The final reason that Groove is now my default is that it uses fewer resources than any other audio player as a background task - and that includes VLC. (It CAN play in the background, however - it just can't play in the background while minimized.) Another reason that I like Groove (as a background audio player) is that it can swallow any audio format that its competition can - including FLAC. Here's the surprise - Groove Music functions quite well as a straight audio player the ONLY quibble is that it doesn't play while minimized. My biggest question was exactly how well DOES Groove function as a straight audio player? (Playlist management can be undone by poor functionality as a straight audio player - Zune anyone?)
When the core of Windows 10 Insider builds moved from Threshold to Redstone, I actually dared to consider moving my default audio player from longtime-default VLC to Groove Music (primarily due to better playlist management possibilities in Groove compared to VLC).
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