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Spotify using several processes and GB of memory just play some music and browse a library is an abomination. WinAMP did most of that 20 years ago while using a fraction of the resources.
Discord similarly is an affront.
If you have Spotify Premium, try a third party client. Even GUI clients like Spotify-qt are memory light [though not at feature parity] whilst terminal clients like ncspot, spotify-player take 1/10th the memory. The latter even supports Spotify connect.
Thank you for his hint.
Correction, Winamp still does this today while using a fraction of the resources.
Though if you're on Windows I'd recommend Xmplay instead, it plays basically everything.
I'm on Linux and I use VLC.
Have you tried AIMP on Windows? If so, how does it compare with Xmplay?
don't use winamp, use wacup
on linux use audacious
Why
don't worry, this will all be solved now with incompetent vibe-coders, just give it a while
or you will look back to this with a nostalgic tear in the eye. one of these.
I use discord.com/app for exactly this reason. Its footprint is lower and the experience is almost exactly the same. And I can block things I don't like using ublock/other extensions, like animated reactions and those crazy new premium video profiles with explosions and confetti etc
I can recommend Vencord or Vesktop instead, it's a modified client with stuff like FakeNitro and Adblocker as plugins
God I wish discord just stuck to being a straightforward app without any of the fancy fluff that's just not needed. I hate the super-flashy things that obscure visibility and divert your attention so much
But it's what they sell to people, and a minority seems to really like so
They had no viable business plan with which to pay back investors so this was inevitable. It sucks though...not a day goes by where I don't grumble about what an insult Discord is to their users.
I run those thing in the browser, where they belong.
If you have premium, there's probably a better native client.
Same here. At first, I thought I was going to get a better Discord experience with the dedicated 'app'. Nope. Another web app crammed into Electron, multiplying the overall browser footprint on my system. It now happily lives on in a normal browser tab where my ad blockers and user-scripts claw back local control of things.
For Spotify it sort of makes sense though, right? It buffers a few songs ahead of time so using any free RAM seems valid
The average spotify 3:40 song is going to be about 4MB. This only changes to triple (10MB at the same length for premium and high quality) that size when you pay for it.
If Spotify is using more than 50MB on the audio cache, they absolutely deserve to get ragged on for it.
Ah true, that is pretty bad then
I don't think it buffers more than one song ahead right, that would be wasteful?
Really? I have it running right now with 0% CPU usage and around 100MB of memory. Something's wrong with your setup.