Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: Using 90% to 100% of CPU in macOS High Sierra

[Galacton]

OS: macOS 10.13.4

GPMDP Version: 4.5.0

Issue Descriptions: Using 90% to 100% of CPU constantly

Steps to Reproduce: Install the app and run it. That's all I did

My System Info: https://pastebin.com/vPu9hJfp

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[jostrander]

Discord rich presence enabled?

[Galacton]

I disabled it earlier

[NotNate]

You might want to try restarting it after disabling discord rich presence. I had it enabled and it was using 40% of my CPU at all times, disabled and restarted and now it uses slightly under 2%

[Galacton]

It's using about 13% now. Thanks to both of you!

[pascalwhoop]

I've got a similar issue on Linux, using about 2x 13% of my 7700k which is way too much for some background doodling. discord is disabled.

[Galacton]

Turns out, macOS does it per core, so it was only 25%

[electr0sheep]

On High Sierra as well, it's using about 8% CPU. This was quite a bit higher than I expected, not sure if that's normal or not. It's also using about 50 threads as well. After switching to streaming through Chrome, it looks like Chrome uses less resources. I thought the desktop player was supposed to be lighter!

Apparently Discord causes issues, but I don't have Discord installed.

[Galacton]

If you have a 4 core machine, that's using 1% of the CPU's entire resources. That's because of Hyper Threading on Intel, as long as it's not a single threaded operation. That's just the Activity Monitor being annoying.

[MikeLund]

So you think this isn't a real bug? It feels like I must be doing something wrong then. I have the Discord thing disabled, and the client still eats ~30% CPU _while idle_. Whereas Radiant Player sitting idle at <5%. On a Mid 2014 Retina, macOS 10.13.6.

I'm loving the player, but it's using an unacceptable amount of battery. Any tips (maybe some setting in the app) on how I can reduce the CPU usage? Thanks.

[pascalwhoop]

On my new laptop with accurate power measurements, my battery life gets dragged down from 10 to 7 hours by the player. Mpd and ncmpcpp only cause 20 minutes, both with Bluetooth playing. There is something happening, this player uses more than 20+ tabs open. Again, happy to provide metrics if guided to a how to/ what is required