spotify_helper RAM usage dramatically increasing when navigating to Artist Page

[corywmcdonald]

I periodically have to force quit out of the Spotify application due to this memory leak. The application takes up to a 1.5 gb over the course of a day.  

Spotify Client: 1.0.70.388.g8e1ed5af

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the activity monitor, find spotify_helper

2. In the spotify client open the Artists page

3. Scroll down to an artist that will be a cache miss

4. Click to view the songs you have saved, optionally if you click View Artist this also causes the memory to increase.

[gerciljunio]

Mine was also consuming a lot of memory, but I did not go deep to look for the reason, I'm using macOS 10.12 (sierra) with 16GB of memory and core i5. My solution was to use Spotify Web, in the future, I might reuse the Desktop application. Since I only saved songs to listen to offline on my cell phone, then I had no problem making such a change.