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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 169 points 3 days ago (23 children)

Spotify using several processes and GB of memory just play some music and browse a library is an abomination. WinAMP did most of that 20 years ago while using a fraction of the resources.

Discord similarly is an affront.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you have Spotify Premium, try a third party client. Even GUI clients like Spotify-qt are memory light [though not at feature parity] whilst terminal clients like ncspot, spotify-player take 1/10th the memory. The latter even supports Spotify connect.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you for his hint.

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