Excessive CPU load playing song.

ManMachine — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:57:18 GMT

I noticed since the last two .deb updates that the CPU fan was running quite much and wondered what happened.

It turns out that playing a song draws ~50% cpu for the most active process + a few more at 5-10%. For just playing sound this is massive!

The UI is also very sluggish, and when operated the main process goes over 100% (in top).

What gives? Should I feed it some options to get rid of this?

OS: Ubuntu 20.04LTS, on a Dell XPS 15 9560

Client (can't seem to find an about box unfortunately):

$ apt-cache show spotify-client Package: spotify-client Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:1.2.26.1187.g36b715a1 Priority: extra Section: sound Maintainer: Spotify <**bleep**> Installed-Size: 284025 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.30), libasound2, libatk-bridge2.0-0, libatomic1, libcurl3-gnutls, libgbm1, libglib2.0-0, libgtk-3-0, libnss3, libssl3 | libssl1.1 | libssl1.0.2 | libssl1.0.1 | libssl1.0.0, libxshmfence1, libxss1, libxtst6, xdg-utils, libayatana-appindicator3-1 Recommends: libavcodec58 | libavcodec-extra58 | libavcodec57 | libavcodec-extra57 | libavcodec-ffmpeg56 | libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 | libavcodec54 | libavcodec-extra-54, libavformat58 | libavformat57 | libavformat-ffmpeg56 | libavformat54 Suggests: libnotify4 Filename: pool/non-free/s/spotify-client/spotify-client_1.2.26.1187.g36b715a1_amd64.deb SHA512: e7acc8e8558546e22cf9fc201ea21fc67bbc48543fed86c5a438e29309d9b55991a116cbffea639c43f65c6eb6616d0d8abdd7b8b5ae44f3d6dbf37b3f0e41f6 Homepage: https://www.spotify.com Size: 133729904 SHA256: 83abdf8bd65348353110b6d858cb7adb53ef9d751d5f348af3fb8868f9eb1151 SHA1: 316e6ecaef700e4dca4f80fedb3a15bdcbfec8e5 MD5sum: 39b7d31b66ab0ef501bf9cbaa9aa804e Description: Spotify streaming music client Description-md5: 85e0fbd02ac6e51c56b3484a676cedf5 License: https://www.spotify.com/legal/end-user-agreement Vendor: Spotify AB $

Re: Excessive CPU load playing song.

ManMachine — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:11:19 GMT

for the record, this was my original post, it got rejected by some algorithm, nice...

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Excessive CPU load playing song.

Re: Excessive CPU load playing song.