With Amarok 1.2.3 (debian unstable), when using gstreamer engine, after playing a song for the first time, if you stop the playback, the CPU usage still continues to be around 10%.

With the xine engine, it has no cpu usage when I stop playing a sound. The cpu usage is 0% in both case when amarok is first started and no playback has happened yet. Is this a bug? If that matters, I\'m using a 0ms gap between songs with no fade in/out.

I can provide an \"strace\" of the process if needed or more debug info.

Let me know
-Chris

There\'s already a bug report about this.
You could commit your help there. It\'s bug no 97604.