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yankee
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Default Windows Media Player eating too much RAM

I noticed that when I opened Windows Media Player to play my music, the available RAM drops from 80Mb to 20Mb. no other applications running...
It means that WM alone consumes 60Mb of RAM???

Had anyone observed this?
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I noticed that when I opened Windows Media Player to play my music, the available RAM drops from 80Mb to 20Mb. no other applications running...
It means that WM alone consumes 60Mb of RAM???

Had anyone observed this?
don't use windows media player then, i use Pocket music to play my music and it's much better then WMP, specially in turns of sound quality.
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don't use windows media player then, i use Pocket music to play my music and it's much better then WMP, specially in turns of sound quality.
Thanks Wu,

I hope this will be fixed on future Dopod ROM upgrade..
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Thanks Wu,

I hope this will be fixed on future Dopod ROM upgrade..

Hi Wu and Yankee,

Thanks for the tip. I'm using pocket music now. It takes up just a couple of MB when runnig rather than the close to 50MB by window media player.

Just one thing though, how do you get microsoft voice commander to use this and play the music? Or can you only start the program without becoming a DJ?