High CPU usage on OSX

[Paluma]

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

[Mauricio_]

Wake up to find the laptop very warm which is odd.

Open activity monitor, and Spotify (which I didn't even use in days) is using 100% of cpu.

This happens all the time and the only option is to kill it in the activity monitor.

Turning off all the options in settings including volume and local files doesn't help at all.

This has been a very well known problem for a long time and there are tons of results in google about this. There's no way Spotify doesn't know about it, they just doesn't care enough to solve it.

[12130355647]

Let me declare a second anniversary of 100% sportify cpu usage bug/issue in OSX. 

Im using the top 2015 15'mbp. For me, its the Spotify app, not Spotify helper. 

Whenever i hear my fan spinning, i know its spotify again. I will force quit it. 

CrossFading was off, now I also turned off the volumn sync setting. 

Lets see what happens. 

[MarshallBakonyi]

Time to time Spotify Helper starts to eat 25-40% CPU. Does not matter does it play music or not. A Spotify restart solves the problem. BUT it is not a solution it is a workaround. I pay the 100% of the fee. So, I would like to use the 100% of the software, not turn off some of the features. It is not acceptable as a "solved" problem. 

[Clamshell]

This app is unusable.  Launch it and do nothing and it starts hitting the CPU, spinning up the fans and draining the battery.  I'll keep using iTunes and my 800 ripped CDs thanks!

I did find one way to stop it using the CPU: use a firewall tool like Radio Silence to block its outgoing network connections.  This is a bit crude, so of course this means Spotify is running in offline mode.  Maybe there's a more finessed way of doing this, although simply adding youtu.be to /etc/hosts wasn't good enough.  I suspect it's their autoplay videos and advertising that's the culprit, so don't ever expect Spotify to resolve this issue.