Spotify Download HOT! Windows 10
Melony Kai
Thanks for your suggestion but as per my last reply the issue I was facing initially is not the slowdown caused by large playlists but an even greater slowdown with freezing that I believe was caused by either a faulty install or a bug in a previous version of spotify. When I reinstalled the issue was fixed, but the slowdown caused by large playlists mimicked the behaviour from before and wrongly made me think I was facing the same issue again, which I was not.
I realise now I can close the thread as I'm no longer facing this issue by marking one of my replies as a solution, my mistake for not doing so sooner.
Unfortunately the speed and responsivity of the application appears to fluctuate, and recently it has been more responsive again. I'm still having slowdown in some areas however it is not nearly as unbearable as it was when I made my initial post, so my suspicion is that prior versions of spotify may have had a memory leak as I haven't changed anything since reinstalling the application and it has been behaving a lot better on its own. However for the sake of documentation I'm still going to answer your questions, both to note what is still slow and sometimes difficult to work with, and also so that if it does happen to slow down again to the same extent as last week I can simply reply to the thread and make a note of what is different.
Memory usage (nb this surface device has 8GB memory and never capped out while testing) while idle lingered around 380MB, spiking to around 420-440MB when scrolling or playing/pausing a song/starting a new song. These bounds were also relatively consistent, however performing many actions at once (e.g. scrolling and scrubbing at the same time) could cause the memory usage to spike higher. Once the application began to use more than 500MB memory it did show some slowing, but this was minor compared to what I previously experienced. Greater memory usage or a memory leak present in previous versions may have been the cause of slowdown as back then even when spotify was the only application open I had this slowdown.
Notably, however, I'm still experiencing slowdown when I try to remove a song from the playlist. Upon performing this action after searching for a song (select more options, remove from playlist), every other action (e.g. scrubbing/skipping to another section of the song) would also slowdown considerably until spotify had removed the song from the playlist. However when doing these actions I noticed that the CPU and memory usage did not spike beyond what I listed above, nor did memory hit 500MB usage. Disk and network activity occurred as expected however these only occurred after the action finally registered and the song eventually disappeared from the playlist.
My current theories bank on memory management troubles in previous versions, like a memory leak, given how minimal the slowdown appears to be currently despite having changed nothing since my last reinstall. The current slowdown, however, I am not so sure about.
If I experienced similar slowdown to prior again I will reply again.
Speak of the **bleep**, it looks like it's memory related. Just now I was clearing out some songs from the playlist and tried to replay a song to tell if I wanted to keep it and it took 15+ seconds to actually register that I'd hit play on the song. It eventually caught up and played the song, before it even registered the removal of the other songs I'd asked spotify to remove from the playlist. Since I've tabbed back into this tab it has removed the songs in question. During this slow down the memory usage hit around 680MB even though memory usage for the entire device is still well below 100%.
Apologies for the delay in a reply. With some more investigation I believe the slowdown I experienced initially was a fluke. A faulty installation perhaps or a buggy version or series of versions, which was fixed by a reinstall. Specifically I've recently been editing my playlists more on mobile and noticed that the slowdown mentioned in my most recent reply (not the initial slowdown) also seems to occur on mobile (android on pixel 5). Removing a song from a playlist causes all other actions to hang until the song has been removed from the playlist. This leads me to suspect that the server is slow at processing such a request, or that spotify simply struggles with larger sized playlist management outside of the liked songs, and because it was similar to what I initially experienced before things got worse, I assumed it was a repeat of the prior problem.
To answer your questions, I did do a clean reinstall the first time I reinstalled the application, though I reinstalled through spotify's website. Toggling local files off then on again made no difference at the time - I tried this while troubleshooting other issues at the time and the slowdown was still present, plus both then and now I only ever have one source folder toggled on. Likewise I toggled hardware acceleration off when I was first having major slowdown issues and at the time it did not seem to make any discernible difference. It is now on and as stated in my previous reply the slowdown is not as bad as it was before. It did seem worse for a while but it hasn't remained as such, so it doesn't seem to be getting worse over time like the initial issue I faced, which is why I believe my initial issue was either, as stated, a bugged installation or a version based bug which reinstalling fixed.
I use alt+tab a lot and spotify keeps irritating me. I want it to sit quietly in the system tray and play the music. This is easy in VLC, all you have to do is click the VLC icon in the system tray but this doesn't seem to work for spotify.
The purpose of this app is to block all .exe files within a specific folder from inbound and outbound internet access from windows firewall. You can verify the new rules added by opening Windows Firewall .(do not try to edit files in the windows app folder and put a bat script to block internet access as this folder is very secured by all means by windows and thus you cannot edit it easily).
I'm having the same issue. I can make it work if I start playing music with another device set as the output device and then change the profiler to the output device but then I only get audio in the left side. Even weirder, spotify web app works fine.
I feel like it originally worked for me but I changed no settings last night and the spotify app did not work properly(sound only outputing on the left) but it worked fine in the browser. I have had issues since the update though so who knows.
It maybe that the ASIO4all driver is not the issue but for the life of me it will not play despite being set as my default device. The issue I get is what happens when ABleton is running for example (despite the fact I set it to not take exclusive control) and so spotify just tells me it cannot play the file at this time.
Not sure what else could be going, Chrome works fine, bitwig works fine, but spotify is having issues.
I will try on my surface pro and see if there is any difference.
My djay pro gets stuck after trying to log to spotify. It just stays in the white screen and nothing happens. I have tried rebooting my machine and reinstalling the program. Im using windows 10 pro v.1903 and djay pro v. 1.0.27493.0
So nothing is helping. I have tried to reinstall the program several times and log in to spotify with facebook and spotifys own log in information. I can get the software to work properly on my laptop but not on my desktop. The problem still exists. It logs in but then it gets stuck on the loading screen as I have put a screenshot on this thread. Pleas help me.
mostly it just stays on the white screen, sometimes it returns this error
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i downloaded the app to this computer 1 week ago and signed into spotify then with no issue on the 4g network, about 4 days ago spotify tracks stopped loading, i decided to sign out and try and sign in again and have been getting this error ever since regardless of the network .
Might you have permission or incompatibility issue. Here are some of the workarounds that may help you to spit out this issue:
https:/ Opens a new window/community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Spotify-opens-in-Windows-with-a-black-screen-and-no-visibility/td-p/1380464
https:/ Opens a new window/community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Blank-Black-Screen-after-Sept-2017-New-Update/td-p/1950506
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What is happening is noise cancellation so that if you were actually in a real call it would be picking up background clutter, which is what it considers everything other than the individuals talking. Most windows users probably using something along the lines of realtek audio.
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