topic Re: 'New Look' Power Consumption in Desktop (Mac)

'New Look' Power Consumption

m1nkeh — Wed, 05 May 2021 07:36:50 GMT

Hi, I have the 'new look' Spotify on macOS Big Sur, and it's now consistently slamming my power consumption. This never used to be the case, will this be fixed, can i revert to the old app, or am i just 'stuck' ?

Re: 'New Look' Power Consumption

Jeremy — Fri, 07 May 2021 07:05:19 GMT

Hi there @m1nkeh,

Thank you for your post in the Community. We're happy to help.

Once the Spotify app gets updated to the latest version, there isn't a way to revert back to the old version.

Can you perform a clean reinstall of the app? This will make sure there's no old cache files causing this.

Let us know how everything goes 🙂

Take care!

Re: 'New Look' Power Consumption

ManuMateos — Mon, 10 May 2021 09:55:02 GMT

I actually tried doing the reinstall, and I'm still getting the "too much energy" notification. Fun part is I'm not actually streaming through this computer, but through a Spotify Connect speaker. This is not good.

Re: 'New Look' Power Consumption

Alex — Mon, 10 May 2021 10:25:48 GMT

Hey @ManuMateos,

Can you try turning off Hardware acceleration from the Spotify settings menu and see if that makes a difference?

We'll be on the lookout for your replies.

Re: 'New Look' Power Consumption

ManuMateos — Mon, 10 May 2021 10:48:04 GMT

Hi Alex, thank you for your reply.

This somewhat worked. The Spotify Helper (Renderer) process energy impact nearly halved (now the maximum value I've seen it's around 16). Although it still appears in the battery menu as a big battery eater.

Re: 'New Look' Power Consumption

m1nkeh — Mon, 10 May 2021 11:01:07 GMT

Interesting... i don't really know what the energy impact level was like before, but my rendered is regularly at around 7 or 7.5ish, i don't even see the option anymore to turn off hardware accel - i know it used to be there?!

Bottom line though, Spotify is now vying for top spot in the energy consumption stakes with Chrome, which is not a great title to hold, grr

Re: 'New Look' Power Consumption

m1nkeh — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:38:30 GMT

I see this was eventually fixed.. but I am not sure if that's 'cos I now have an Apple Silicon laptop 😆