Adding local files causes crash

NOwbgvjlbnlkbln — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:38:49 GMT

I found a _CLOSED_ Item from 2016 that is totally still an issue. Copy from that item follows:

Submitted by bartuszekj on ‎2016-02-26 04:49 AM

It seems Spotify is suffering from a memory leak caused by code responsible for loading local files. I have a modest collection of about 3.5k locally stored mp3 files. I can add the local directory as a source successfully, and the import process kicks off.

Unfortunately, as importing progresses, memory usage of spotify app keeps increasing. This is a screenshot taken after about 900 songs and 10 minutes into the process:

As you can see, memory usage is exorbitantly high, and nearing the limit for 32-bit application. Sure enough, a few moments later, Spotify crashes. As it seems there is no native 64-bit client for Windows, the only workaround seems to be to piecemeal loading of local files, which is a very daunting task.

Is there anything that can be done to fix this?

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Two years later, and I have the exact same problem.

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Operating System

(Windows 10 - downloaded non-Store app)

My Question or Issue

see above - I'm literally unable to add local directories without the app crashing the whole system after a while. Could add a screenshot, but it would look the same as the one above.

Any solution or workaround? There ARE artists that aren't on Spotify and never will be, you know.

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Adding local files causes crash