> I never remember waiting on Winamp to start up. Me neither, but I remember I was annoyed few times it took "ages" to load a "library" of few (thousands) trac

> I never remember waiting on Winamp to start up. Me neither, but I remember I was annoyed few times it took "ages" to load a "library" of few (thousands) tracks and then consumed considerable amount of RAM. Maybe TENS of megabytes even (!!1!). So I remember the relief when I switched to Billy audio player [1], that was way more "spartan" and had just those few features I really needed, and then joy of even faster start time and negligible memory footprint. [1] https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html (download is "temporarily off", but there are comparisons with Winamp and screensot).