Playing music uses significant resources - suspicous behaviour

[lord-_-yoda]

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Surface Book 2

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

The applications hovers between 15-25% through out the session when used. I have restarted the machine and have no downloads happening. This is what it takes to just play music. I think your devs need to have a look at this. Can't have such an inefficient app.

For that matter, I just restarted the application as I was writing this and noticed, that even right after a restart while doing nothing at all, its still hovering around 25%. What is the application doing ? Real suspicious behavior.

I have a bunch of other software running including many browser windows and tabs and even those barely register when idling.

[lord-_-yoda]

Figured something new out. Having the Spotify window open on a screen while doing nothing uses resources.

Once minimised, it drops. This is real strange behaviour guys. Please improve.

The same is true while playing music. Playing minimised is efficient. The application UI is not.

[kaworu_bloodpaw]

Hey @lord-_-yoda

This behavior seems strange. I took a moment to open Task Manager and monitor Spotify's CPU usage. It jumped up to about 3% when my Friend Activity panel changed. Other than that it sat at around <1%.

It also looks like you may have multiple Spotify instances open. My Task Manager only shows one collapsed Spotify group.

If you want to fix this, you could perform a Clean Reinstall of Spotify.

Please follow these steps.

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[lord-_-yoda]

Hey @kaworu_bloodpaw

Another bit of information that I have confirmed on my system.

The resource utilisation issue occurs if the Spotify window is sitting on the "Home" page and drops as soon as you are viewing a playlist or something else..

Are you able to replicate this on your system?

The multiple instances was kind of odd, I'm not seeing that anymore and all the sub-processes are grouped together now.

[kaworu_bloodpaw]

My CPU utilization is about the same when I'm on the home page. It jumped around from 2.8-8% while it failed to load an ad. After that it stuck at around .3%, ranging from 0-1%.