Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: MAC CPU Usage

[tehdef]

OS: MacOS 10.12.4

Issue Descriptions: Activity Monitor is registering 2 instances of GPMDP Helper and 1 instance of GPMDP. Total CPU usage is 10-15% for EACH process and is higher than any other app in usage. Combined is 40% of my CPU just to play 1 song... Additionally, Memory shows 3 instances of the helper ranging from 50-200mb of RAM, and the core app using 113.

This has to be addressed. System resources are important. The footprint for this should be minimal.

Steps to Reproduce: Load. View activity Monitor. Realize your CPU is tied up and your Macbook is running at 120 degrees Fahrenheit because of it.

[MarshallOfSound]

As discussed in numerous other issues there is minimal impact I can have on this resource usage. Admittedly your described usage is well outside of normal bounds (my usage hovers between 1 and 8% cpu) it is probably due to the size of your music library or the age of your mac or something else out of my control.

GPMDP's code is heavily optimized. Lot's of the resource usage comes from GPM itself which is outside of my control

[tehdef]

While I understand why this was closed, maybe I just need more help understanding the why so many Helpers are active?

What are they doing? Is it something that GPMDP can control? Is the only thing that GPMDP controls is the actual GPMDP app? Or are the helpers directly connected? I turned off the JSON API and now the GPMDP app runs between 4.4-10% max. It's the helper that is eating 20% or so of the CPU usage.

For information purposes, I have a mid 2012 Core i7 Macbook Pro.

Is this simply a closed issue, or is there more I can do to help better understand the app and how it uses my resources?

Thanks Sam.

[jsmestad]

I agree @tehdef some background would be helpful there. I have a brand new i7 macbook pro (2016 TB) and the CPU usage is crazy high unless I do the "Windowed mode" -> "Minimize" workaround. To @MarshallOfSound my library is very small by Google Play standards and am only listening to Radio stations, CPU usage is still very high when listening, about 38-50% CPU usage

[andrew-oneill]

I can also confirm the same high CPU usage. Consistently 40-50% of CPU usage on a new i7 2016 15inch macbook pro. Only occurs while music is playing. CPU usage is low when music is not playing.

Edit: the same high CPU usage situation occurs when I try using the electron build of radiant-player for Mac https://github.com/radiant-player/radiant-player-electron which leads me to suspect that it is something to do with how electron is handling the audio.