Spotify Desktop Mac requires discrete GPU

[fossilz]

I have a 2010 Macbook Pro 15" and I use gfxCardStatus to monitor the GPU use. Running Spotify Desktop requires the discrete GPU to be enabled and reduces battery life.

Spotify 0.9.4.185 on Mac OS X 10.8.4

This link was suggested by the gfxCardStatus developer:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1734/_index.html

[Peter__]

This is a known and reported issue:

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/OS-X-Spotify-0-9-4-is-using-external-grap...

Thinking you might be able to disable the gpu acceleration using the start up flags in this post? 

Peter

[burner]

Just stumled open this thread 😄

In case anyony has issues nowadays, hope this helps:

For macOS the approriate command is:

do shell script "open -b com.spotify.client --args -disable-gpu"

Paste this in "Apple Script Editor" and export as application 😉

[justinhigley]

YOU ARE MY HERO.

Chrome/High Sierra's integrated to discrete graphics handoff is completely borked. Both Chrome and Spotify (built using CEF) have been bringing my macbook pro to its knees. Turning off hardware accel for Chrome fixed Chrome. But with no UI option to do similar in Spotify I was up a creek. Thank you for actually providing a solution to what so many of us have been experiencing.

[burner]

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justinhigley schrieb:

But with no UI option to do similar in Spotify I was up a creek.

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Maybe this will change soon ;;;;)

[burner]

So, as I mentioned before, things have changed now :))

Version 1.0.80 is the version we all waited for!

Have a look in the Spotify menu in the macOS menu bar.

There you will now find the option to deactivate the hardware acceleration...

From now on, discrete GPU will not be triggered by Spotify on older Macs!

Cheers!