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Jim Norman Author

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New 'Music' app using 30 GB of memory and increasing

Installed Catalina today and started the new Music app playing in the background. Later I saw that there were some memory usage alerts and then saw that the Music app was stated as using 30 GB of memory (I have 16 GB on my MBP).

Closed the app and started it up again. It began by using about 250 MB of memory. But then memory usage going up by about 15 MB every second. A few minutes later and I'm already back yp to 3.5 GB and climbing.

Is anybody else seeing this?

Posted on Oct 7, 2019 5:40 PM

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Philip-P

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Posted on Oct 7, 2019 6:59 PM

It did that for me and got up to about 22GB. It was getting the album art. I restarted the app and it started lower and started getting the rest of the art. Once that was done, I restarted the app again and the memory usage is now steady around 600MB.

Seems very excessive to use that much memory to get album art. I have over 40GB of music, but still...

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