Higher CPU Usage than spotify's client

[nloyola]

I'm running Ubuntu 20.10 and I built / installed Spot from the GitHub repository. I built with commit b891440.

Using htop, I've noticed that Spot uses around 30% - 40% CPU on two different processes when playing a playlist . Even after running it for more than 5 minutes.

If I do the same thing with the Spotify client, I only see about 5% to 10% CPU usage.

Is there anything I can do to lower CPU usage?

Here are my CPU specs:

processor	: 7
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 158
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0xde
cpu MHz		: 801.045
cache size	: 8192 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 8
core id		: 3
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 7
initial apicid	: 7
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 22
wp		: yes

Thanks

[xou816]

Hi! Might be worth compiling in release mode (meson: -Dbuildtype=release), I'm not noticing excessive CPU usage on my end (with a somewhat worse CPU). Is it only during playback, for large playlists, etc?

[nloyola]

Thanks @xou816! Building with release buildtype works much better. Now uses less than 5% CPU.

Yes, this only happens during playlist playback.

Maybe the README file should say -Dbuildtype=release?

Spot is awesome! I'm definitely switching!

[xou816]

Glad it helped! Right, I should mention this probably :)

[xou816]

Updated README, closing this :)