topic Re: High CPU usage on OSX in Desktop (Mac)

High CPU usage on OSX

Paluma — Tue, 26 May 2015 17:19:07 GMT

Hi guys

When I'm listening to Spotify from time to time the fans on my MacBook spin up and CPU usage of Spotify Helper rises up to 40%.

Apart from that CPU usage is around 3-7%

Is that normal??

Specs:

MacBook Pro Retina 13" Late 2013

2.4Ghz

8Gb RAM

OSX Yosemite 10.10.3

Spotify 1.0.5.186.ga9c24d6a

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

nfcampos — Tue, 26 May 2015 18:23:45 GMT

also, when syncing songs offline cpu usage jumps to 100%

(I have similar specs — a more recent MBP retina and with 16gb ram)

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

Paluma — Tue, 26 May 2015 19:25:03 GMT

That's insane! 😮

I added two screenshots where you can see the CPU load when the ad for premium played... Everytime the ad plays cpu usage shoots up.. 😕

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

Paluma — Wed, 27 May 2015 07:21:51 GMT

Today the CPU usage went up to 40% and I wasn't even listening to music...

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

Paluma — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 15:23:50 GMT

It's really anoying. I can't use Spotify anymore because CPU usage stays at 50-80% now...

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

sebhoss67 — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:44:10 GMT

I have exactly the same problem: Spotify Helper is eating away at least 30-40% of CPU. Other people recommend disabling "local files", but that did not help me either. Instead i had to disable crossfading of tracks and setting the same volumne level for all tracks. After that, Spotify Helper is down to 0.1% 🙂

Turning on any other option except high quality streaming (yes, i'm paying for this), results in high CPU load.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

hans-jürgen — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:17:14 GMT

This thread seems to be located in the wrong forum. 😉

Furthermore I have read from another Mac user yesterday evening with the same problem that updating to 1.0.10 and to Yosemite finally helped her.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

Malangali — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:09:41 GMT

Thanks! I turned off a bunch of options in preferences, and immediately went from 40% to less than 3%. And the cooling fan shut off, so I could enjoy listening to the music...

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

hand123 — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 04:33:07 GMT

Hello. What were all of the preferences that you tweaked or turned off? I would love to know. I'm having great Spotify Helper CPU issues. Thanks.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

chaosemerald85 — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:07:44 GMT

Try turning off Crossfade Tracks and the volume level thing under Advanced Settings.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

rppl — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:06:56 GMT

That actually resolved the issue...
Seems like Spotify Helper was constantly evaluating the volume level or what not.

Thanks!

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

Majkus_ — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:08:13 GMT

Thanks, but this is still a workaround, sacrifacing features is not a solution. I do want to use "set the same volume level for all tracks" option and don't tell me that crossfading is that unpopular feature no one wants to use. Spotify should look into this, I'm not paying for buggy app that heats my ordinarily silently running Mac for obviously no important reason. Feel free to correct me, if I am wrong. Thanks

P.S. This is not a hate speech guys, don't get me wrong. I just think that problems should be solved.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

tumazinho — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:24:51 GMT

Sorry, no did not help in my case.

Still 90% without playing any song...

Would be great to find a permanent solution

thanks

tommaso

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

july229 — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 17:37:37 GMT

I turned off all available offline content and Spotify Helper cpu utilization seems normal now. It's unfortunate that Spotify development team could not fix the bug.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

kk61 — Wed, 04 May 2016 17:15:49 GMT

How did you do that? I don't know how to do that haha

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

kk61 — Wed, 04 May 2016 17:16:32 GMT

How do you do that? I don't know how to haha

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

pedrofolio — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:06:56 GMT

Happy birthday to this issue, more than a year later and it still exists.

Thankfully google pointed me here and turning off the volume preference fixed it.

Seriously Spotify, wtf? Either set the darn thing off by default or plain remove it from the preferences.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

jintseng — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:03:58 GMT

Looks like I'm getting some crazy high CPU usage when Spotify is closed?

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND

henry 44875 214.6 2.5 3754452 412432 ?? R 4:09PM 78:01.88

Crossfade isn't even on.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

codipassaro — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:31:33 GMT

windows 10 64 bit

8gb of ram

i5 4460

ALL settings are turned off, even in advanced settings. Only getting high CPU usage when at the "browsing tab"

currently at 95% cpu usage.

I do not have a "spotify helper" in my task manager, only 2 spotify 32bits, one sitting at 83% one sitting at 3.9%

This is absurd.

Re: High CPU usage on OSX

akfp — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 01:01:50 GMT

99% CPU on OS X, while the track is paused.

Will we see the 2nd anniversary for this bug?