If I remember correctly, a new developer took over the project awhile back and has been making it progressively worse ever since. The question here is of course why all this crap happens in the out of the box situation…Ħ4bit, iscrobbler, last.fm, mac, software. And amusingly the application is now down to using only 10MB of memory which sounds like a reasonable amount to me.
Iscrobbler 32 bit#
Because we are still firmly in the 32 bit age on the Mac these days, no matter what other people suggest.Ī quick run of lipo (argh, I want a -strip-crap option for that which automatically overwrites the original rather than having to know the obnoxious ‘names’ the different architecture types have) later, the 64bit problem was solved.
Iscrobbler 64 Bit#
Which effectively means that for what should be a harmless utility application the system probably has to load a whole new copies of its libraries just so the application can run in 64 bit mode. One is httpd, the other is Chess - and I don’t actually use that - and the third is iScrobbler. As far as I can tell, of the processes I use, at most 3 are 64bit. My computer may have a 64bit processor but the fact is that I don’t need that feature. A shame.Īnd then there’s the 64bit problem. The next step was of course to turn the local history keeping off, to make sure the problem won’t return. At least removing the associated files - which were slightly over 10MB - from the system reduced the RAM consumption to ‘just’ 20MB of ‘real’ memory. From what I can tell it must have kept several copies of that in RAM and worked intensively on it for some reason. Part of the problem seems to be the local database iScrobbler keeps of the tracks you played. Quite frequently I found it using 200MB of ‘real’ RAM and 100% of CPU time for - hm, I don’t really know what for. In my opinion such a utility should be small and lean. Not even because the features that were added (playback of last.fm streams, keeping a local history, loving/banning tracks - all stuff which should be part of iTunes, but which Apple is too blasé to put in there because their music player application needs to support phones or something), but because the priorities in doing so seem backwards. The musical notes remained but everything else seems to have gone off track. A tiny utility doing a tiny job well and displaying some pretty musical notes in your menu bar. IScrobbler started out as a nice utility for submitting your currently played music to audioscrobbler / last.fm (who seem to have a new design).
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