How far we've come: it requires 191MHz of my CPU to decode and play a FLAC on my laptop.
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@rjek My identical one needs 5% of a core running at 800MHz, so you must be "doing it wrong" :-) (Although I'm only using 44k1 content)
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@dsilverstone Are you including Rhythmbox, pulseaudio, and X's usage? :)
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Replying to @dsilverstone
@dsilverstone PA uses more CPU here than RB does. But it's also broken, even though I've never touched the configuration.