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Just downloaded this to try it out... This is now my new Spotify client! It's so damned efficient it barely registers in my CPU monitor. Check out the memory

Just downloaded this to try it out... This is now my new Spotify client! It's so damned efficient it barely registers in my CPU monitor. Check out the memory utilization too! https://i.imgur.com/Fa3Dnnb.png https://i.imgur.com/Fa3Dnnb.png Now compare it with the semi-official Spotify client: https://i.imgur.com/nNWFIj1.png https://i.imgur.com/nNWFIj1.png

lostmsu 5y ago
According to this: https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/winamp-memory-usage.74302/ https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/winamp-memory-usa... Winamp 2.72 only used about 8 megs of RAM.
- dotancohen 5y ago
  Eight Megs And Counting. Wow, eight megs was once so much memory that we would laugh about applications that even approached it.
  - TchoBeer 5y ago
    It's really crazy how quickly things have gotten bigger. I remember not too long ago my mid-high power computer had 1Gb of RAM, nowadays that would be laughably small.
rvz 5y ago
So Electron is the problem. It gets worse if you have lots of tabs open in Chrome + running other electron apps as well. A visible and obvious improvement when compared with a native app. Also, Electron apps do not scale and it wastes CPU time, eats RAM up and fills up HDD space. On laptops, it drains the battery faster. A quadruple negative to the user.
userbinator 5y ago
The second one should be sorted by name to show that there are actually multiple spotify processes. (There's another one near the bottom of the list.)
xyst 5y ago
I wonder what the footprint will look like once the author writes in all of the missing features
maccam94 5y ago
I wonder if that executable is stripped, often that saves a decent chunk of memory.
- mkj 5y ago
  It'll save disk space but not resident memory? Debug symbols etc shouldn't be paged in. The Linux binary goes from 20MB to 10MB stripped.
jpochyla 5y ago
Hi, I'm glad you like it! The performance is not _that_ good at the moment, mostly because of superfluous paints, but it's something I'd like to focus on (as it's one of the primary objectives).

lostmsu 5y ago

According to this: https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/winamp-memory-usage.74302/ https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/winamp-memory-usa... Winamp 2.72 only used about 8 megs of RAM.

dotancohen 5y ago
Eight Megs And Counting. Wow, eight megs was once so much memory that we would laugh about applications that even approached it.
- TchoBeer 5y ago
  It's really crazy how quickly things have gotten bigger. I remember not too long ago my mid-high power computer had 1Gb of RAM, nowadays that would be laughably small.

rvz 5y ago

So Electron is the problem. It gets worse if you have lots of tabs open in Chrome + running other electron apps as well. A visible and obvious improvement when compared with a native app. Also, Electron apps do not scale and it wastes CPU time, eats RAM up and fills up HDD space. On laptops, it drains the battery faster. A quadruple negative to the user.

userbinator 5y ago

The second one should be sorted by name to show that there are actually multiple spotify processes. (There's another one near the bottom of the list.)

xyst 5y ago

I wonder what the footprint will look like once the author writes in all of the missing features

maccam94 5y ago

I wonder if that executable is stripped, often that saves a decent chunk of memory.

mkj 5y ago
It'll save disk space but not resident memory? Debug symbols etc shouldn't be paged in. The Linux binary goes from 20MB to 10MB stripped.

jpochyla 5y ago

Hi, I'm glad you like it! The performance is not _that_ good at the moment, mostly because of superfluous paints, but it's something I'd like to focus on (as it's one of the primary objectives).