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Post by jandl100 on Jun 12, 2018 8:22:28 GMT
Any suggestions would be welcome, bearing in mind I am a computer numpty!
I use Spotify quite a lot, and in the early days it was zippy and quick to respond to commands.
But now, most often but not always, it can take tens of seconds to respond to a search query or even just to a scroll-down/up command.
Once the music has started there are no issues with playback, but it can take ages sometimes to get to the music!
I also use Qobuz these days, and that just zooms along!
Any suggestions what I can do?
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Post by MartinT on Jun 12, 2018 8:29:34 GMT
I find that Spotify tries to do too much while typing into the search box (it starts immediately looking for matches) which really slows down my under-powered tablet which I normally use on the big system. The lag is sometimes very bad. No such problems with my PC which has considerably more grunt.
In Edit | Preferences | Advanced Settings, you could try turning off Enable hardware acceleration. Sometimes this can cause problems with incompatible hardware.
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 12, 2018 8:40:44 GMT
Thanks Martin, I've just done that.
Have to restart Spotify to make the change come into effect and it's often speedier for a while after that.
Looking good atm though - it's zipping along!
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 12, 2018 20:57:07 GMT
... nope, it's slowed right down again.
Takes a minute or so to respond to any command.
Qobuz is zipping along with instant responses.
Very strange.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 12, 2018 20:57:54 GMT
On what device, Jerry?
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 13, 2018 5:41:05 GMT
Acer laptop - no lack of processing power.
Sometimes Spotify zips along with instant responses - other times (and usually these days) it almost grinds to a halt.
Numpty thought - it's like there is a buffer dedicated to Spotify that fills up after a while, and when it does it goes slooooow.
Nothing else I use on the laptop seems affected.
If the PC or Spotify itself are turned off then on again, it speeds up to zippy speeds for a while.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 13, 2018 7:23:35 GMT
Strange. I only have slowness on my little 8" Windows tablet, which has a very low power Atom CPU. When I disabled hardware acceleration it seemed to help a bit. I haven't seen the variability that you have, though.
Are you sure that it isn't your wi-fi connection? The Spotify client is quite demanding of a good connection.
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 13, 2018 7:33:37 GMT
Are you sure that it isn't your wi-fi connection? The Spotify client is quite demanding of a good connection. Hmm, I don't know. But how would that tie in with "If the PC or Spotify itself are turned off then on again, it speeds up to zippy speeds for a while."? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 8:08:10 GMT
I've never had slowness on my tablet or phone, but I do find Spotify seems to take an age to open on my iMac. Once it is open it is generally ok though.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 13, 2018 10:18:27 GMT
But how would that tie in with "If the PC or Spotify itself are turned off then on again, it speeds up to zippy speeds for a while."? I'm not saying it is for a moment, but applications can do this despite other applications running wi-fi just fine. Buffer/cache comes to mind. Spotify has its own cache, so it's worth checking in Advanced Settings that Offline Songs Storage isn't going anywhere stupid. I point mine to c:\temp so that it's easily cleared. |
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 13, 2018 14:41:30 GMT
Offline songs storage?  What's that, then? I'll have a look. Strange - offline songs storage is set to a location that deosn't exist. I've reset it to a valid address on my PC. I'll see how it goes now. |
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