PowerAmp red in task manager - normal?

[Ceramic]

PowerAmp is red in task manager even though I have everything else turned off. No other apps are running nor active. Is this normal? It says RAM 27.58mb and CPU 27.30% (it varies a little). Is it because it's using up too much battery? I'm listening through the speakers and volume is set at one third.

[greenman]

I wonder what else is running in the background. I'm assuming you're using Go Launcher EX. When you click the app drawer icon and go to the 'running' button, what do you see running?

[Lagoo56]

I've seen the same thing on mine sometimes but for various apps,I'm assuming that happens when an app is taking up alot of CPU or RAM space.

[mattg3]

Its normal

[Ceramic]

Well, it's not in the red because I was playing FLAC, it happens with 256kbps MP3s too. I'll give Go Laucher EX a try to see if it'll find any unnecessary active apps, thanks, greenman.

PowerAmp is an app I'll use all the time, will it wear out the processor and/or battery much faster than normal? I was on the point of buying it, but now I'm having second thoughts. Thanks in advance.

[Goucham]

Originally Posted by Ceramic

PowerAmp is red in task manager even though I have everything else turned off. No other apps are running nor active. Is this normal? It says RAM 27.58mb and CPU 27.30% (it varies a little). Is it because it's using up too much battery? I'm listening through the speakers and volume is set at one third.

The task manager CPU indicator starts redlining at 10% (which is a little ridiculous if you ask me.) If utilization is only at 27.30% then I wouldn't worry about it. If you were pegging at 90% then I think you'd have something you'd need to look into.

[mattg3]

Mine has gone into red with other music apps like TTPOD and Cubed.Nothing to pay attention to

[dmack_ca]

Does that not indicate that the battery is being drained a lot?

[mattg3]

Never really noticed but perhaps if you close everything but poweramp when using it that might help.No real way to avoid it going into red so i just ignore it.

[Ceramic]

Winamp, the free/trial version does the same thing. I've noticed that the native music player doesn't go into the red and CPU usage is at 0.00%. Strange. I'll stick with PowerAmp since it's still the best sounding player and has many great features. If I want to conserve battery power, I'll just use the native player. Thanks for the replies guys.

[mikee]

cloudskipper doesn't go red for me all other players except stock player do though

[Goucham]

PowerAmp consuming more CPU cycles than the stock player isn't surprising as it uses custom audio processing routines. It doesn't make it bad, it just means that it uses functions that have to be processed on the main CPU instead of just outputting what comes through the audio codec (at least that is my best guess.)

[gupti]

PowerAmp is the best sounding player (that I have found), but at the price of the battery. It is the second user of battery on my device, after the display, with 12%. When I'm away from an outlet for a long time, the stock player does its job fairly well.