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Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

spacebug — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:46:35 GMT

After some time Spotify for Linux starts to use too many connections to PulseAudio. This makes it impossible to use any sound on the computer.

This shows an output after one day of usage:

http://pastebin.com/E5AVQd62

OS: Debian 8.5 (Jessie)

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

jooon — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:11:24 GMT

Have never seen before. Will investigate. What is the output of:

cat /etc/lsb-release
uname -a
dpkg -l libasound2 pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils | grep ^ii

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

jooon — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:22:38 GMT

Also, how many spotify processes do you see when you have this problem? Maybe spotify is restarting and doesn't close itself properly.

ps fx | grep spotify

shows 4 processes for me, which is normal when one instance is running.

$ ps fx | grep spotify
 4419 pts/4    Sl+    0:01      |   \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify
 4424 pts/4    S+     0:00      |       \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=zygote...
 4454 pts/4    Sl+    0:03      |       |   \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=renderer...
 4438 pts/4    Sl+    0:00      |       \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=gpu-process...

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

spacebug — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:33:41 GMT

Output from "ps fx | grep spotify"

5239 ? Sl 13:42 \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify
5242 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=zygote --no-sandbox --lang=en-US --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --log-severity=disable --product-version=Spotify/1.0.36.120
5279 ? Sl 4:30 | \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=renderer --disable-pinch --no-sandbox --primordial-pipe-token=6D4D7B021A2C597A9FA60D6813C8DC86 --lang=en-US --lang=en-US --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --log-severity=disable --product-version=Spotify/1.0.36.120 --disable-extensions --disable-spell-checking --num-raster-threads=4 --content-image-texture-target=3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553 --video-image-texture-target=3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553,3553 --disable-accelerated-video-decode --mojo-channel-token=CAC62E68AE5F5EEEF9123566B0004592 --mojo-application-channel-token=1E958C4010444E267A02F755347A2583 --channel=5239.1.1094438878 --v8-natives-passed-by-fd --v8-snapshot-passed-by-fd
5256 ? Sl 2:12 \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=gpu-process --channel=5239.0.1846326019 --mojo-application-channel-token=91A22B22A13A7F6BE73DB761DC39017C --no-sandbox --window-depth=24 --x11-visual-id=33 --lang=en-US --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --log-severity=disable --product-version=Spotify/1.0.36.120 --supports-dual-gpus=false --gpu-driver-bug-workarounds=4,28,34,37,55,71,74 --gpu-vendor-id=0x10de --gpu-device-id=0x1401 --gpu-driver-vendor=NVIDIA --gpu-driver-version=361.45.11 --gpu-driver-date --gpu-secondary-vendor-ids=0x8086 --gpu-secondary-device-ids=0x0412 --lang=en-US --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --log-severity=disable --product-version=Spotify/1.0.36.120 --v8-natives-passed-by-fd --v8-snapshot-passed-by-fd
23014 pts/1 S+ 0:00 | \_ grep spotify

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

spacebug — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:37:52 GMT

( Debian does not have /etc/usb-release )

spacebug@blackbox:~$ lsb_release -da
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 (jessie)
Release: 8.5
Codename: jessie
spacebug@blackbox:~$ uname -a
Linux blackbox 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
spacebug@blackbox:~$ dpkg -l libasound2 pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils | grep ^ii
ii libasound2:amd64 1.0.28-1 amd64 shared library for ALSA applications
ii pulseaudio 5.0-13 amd64 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 5.0-13 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
spacebug@blackbox:~$

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

spacebug — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:50:33 GMT

A more detaled output from "pacmd list-clients"

http://pastebin.com/W4FD8kNw

Seems like all connections comes from Spotify process number 5239 (in the previous output from my "ps fx")

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

spacebug — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:39:58 GMT

It seems to happen more when I use Spotify on my android phone during the day. Also, everytime I have used my Spotify on my phone and then come home to my desktop client, the sound on the desktop client is muted (volume slide down to zero).

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

jooon — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:24:26 GMT

@spacebug wrote:
It seems to happen more when I use Spotify on my android phone during the day. Also, everytime I have used my Spotify on my phone and then come home to my desktop client, the sound on the desktop client is muted (volume slide down to zero).

Sounds even weirder, but I guess this could be relevant, since clients logged in to the same account try to keep in sync, so that you can quickly continue in one when you leave another. I am still very unsure how it could affect audio (when nothing is played on the other client), but I will make some tests. Please keep me posted, whenever you find more things like this.

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

spacebug — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:56:20 GMT

I have found it! When I _close_ the Spotify app on my android phone (bring up all applications and swipe to the side to close it), the desktop client uses one more slot on pulse audio.

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

jooon — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:08:56 GMT

I just managed to reproduce this. I have to start playing a track on my android phone and skip to the next before I close the app. If I close it directly or only play one track it does not use one more connection on the linux client.

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

spacebug — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:36:36 GMT

Ah. Yeah sounds about right.

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

gdi2k — Thu, 21 May 2020 09:59:55 GMT

Any updates on this? It's still happening for me on Ubuntu MATE 20.04

I do switch between Android and the desktop client a few times a day.

Spotify version is 1.1.10.546.ge08ef575

gdi2k@Ryzen1700:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Release: 20.04 Codename: focal gdi2k@Ryzen1700:~$ pacmd list-clients | grep Spotify | nl 1 application.name = "Spotify" 2 application.name = "Spotify" 3 application.name = "Spotify" 4 application.name = "Spotify" 5 application.name = "Spotify" 6 application.name = "Spotify" 7 application.name = "Spotify" 8 application.name = "Spotify" 9 application.name = "Spotify" 10 application.name = "Spotify" 11 application.name = "Spotify" 12 application.name = "Spotify" 13 application.name = "Spotify" 14 application.name = "Spotify" 15 application.name = "Spotify" 16 application.name = "Spotify" 17 application.name = "Spotify" 18 application.name = "Spotify" 19 application.name = "Spotify" 20 application.name = "Spotify" 21 application.name = "Spotify" 22 application.name = "Spotify" 23 application.name = "Spotify" 24 application.name = "Spotify" 25 application.name = "Spotify" 26 application.name = "Spotify" 27 application.name = "Spotify" 28 application.name = "Spotify" 29 application.name = "Spotify" 30 application.name = "Spotify" gdi2k@Ryzen1700:~$ ps fx | grep spotify 269774 pts/2 S+ 0:00 | | \_ grep --color=auto spotify 26271 ? Sl 21:08 \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify 26279 ? S 0:00 | \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=zygote --no-sandbox --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --log-severity=disable --product-version=Spotify/1.1.10.546 --lang=en-US 26312 ? Sl 34:24 | | \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=renderer --no-sandbox --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --field-trial-handle=9707481214449053510,15862504478447034379,131072 --disable-features=ExtendedMouseButtons,NetworkService --lang=en-US --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --log-severity=disable --product-version=Spotify/1.1.10.546 --disable-spell-checking --num-raster-threads=4 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --service-request-channel-token=11308299691101008145 --renderer-client-id=3 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100,v8_natives_data:101 26292 ? Sl 12:09 | \_ /usr/share/spotify/spotify --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=9707481214449053510,15862504478447034379,131072 --disable-features=ExtendedMouseButtons,NetworkService --no-sandbox --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --log-severity=disable --product-version=Spotify/1.1.10.546 --lang=en-US --gpu-preferences=KAAAAAAAAAAgAAAgAQAAAAAAAAAAAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAA --log-file=/usr/share/spotify/debug.log --service-request-channel-token=9405468996116445578

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

fulminated — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 12:51:05 GMT

As a workaround, I use this simple script whenever I have multiple instances of spotify pulseaudio clients.

https://gist.github.com/fatihkaan22/0cad6b53647c5d887c67b22c260568cb

#! /bin/bash spotifyInstances=() while read LINE1; read LINE2; do IFS=':-=' read -ra L1 <<< $LINE1 read -ra L2 <<< $LINE2 # trim leading/trailing spaces for error checking INDEX_STR=$(echo "${L1[0]}" | xargs) NAME_STR=$(echo "${L2[0]}" | xargs) if [[ $INDEX_STR != 'index' || $NAME_STR != 'application.name' ]]; then echo 'ERROR' exit fi INDEX=${L1[1]} NAME=${L2[1]} if [[ $NAME == ' "Spotify"' ]]; then spotifyInstances+=( $INDEX ) fi done < <(pacmd list-clients | grep -e 'index:' -e 'application.name') # remove last element (active client) unset 'spotifyInstances[${#arr[@]}-1]' for s in ${spotifyInstances[@]}; do echo "pacmd kill-client $s" pacmd kill-client $s done

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

mohad12211 — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:59:11 GMT

thank you for this script, I'm having the same problem while playing local files and this solved it!

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

DASPRiD — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 01:24:02 GMT

Seems like 6 years later this is still an issue 🙂

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

ubuntu2004lts — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 04:36:53 GMT

Relatively new to Linux and thought it was a problem with the OS until I saw this. Looks like it's just Spotify's ignorance.

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

philonp21 — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 22:46:09 GMT

DUDE

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

lormaccone — Fri, 13 May 2022 07:00:36 GMT

Thanks for the script, that worked for me too!

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

0xReki — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:41:21 GMT

Starting spotify with the option --no-zygote fixes the issue for me.

(It's an option for chromium that disables forking.)

Re: Spotify opens too many connections to PulseAudio (Linux)

unseenlarks — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 23:56:35 GMT

still happening on version 1:1.1.84.716.gc5f8b819-2 (running on Xubuntu 22.10).