Songbird Hangs Ram and CPU

I am running Songbird on XP SP1 with 1.5GB RAM / P4 2.1GHz Songbird is using 100MB RAM with peak usage at ~220 MB. CPU usage is bouncing around 2-8%. While other processes take Higher CPU Songbird will skip / hang.

Great program for a library, but I can't use it for playback.

derby, thanks for your feedback, can you give me more details on how many tracks you have in your library. I'll file a bug as appropriate.

I have 4000 songs. I don't think its a too many tracks problem. It seems that the audio portion of songbird is not using the best method to play audio and requires too much CPU. I went from songbird to foobar2000 to replace my itunes so I don't get stuck with Apple Lossless. I am using FLAC instead. But its too bad about songbird, it has potential.

derby, 4,000 tracks is definitely not the issue. I've been testing the latest release with 14k+ tracks and everything seems to be okay. I want to confirm your issue before I file a bug. What platform are you on? When do you experience the spike in memory and CPU use? Are there any details to reproduce the bug that should get mentioned? Thank you again for support our project, your feedback is invaluable.

Hi Koshi i think you should have reported this because other players dont do this i mean if i ́m working with photoshop by example and songbird consumes more memory than it, i better use windows media, you have to worry about this because this is really a bug.

In my case i ́ve been consuming about 300 MB and it ́s a lot, thanks because i really like the program.

Ezra, thanks for the feedback, I just want to make sure I file a useful bug. I don't want QA to close as invalid/worksforme, etc. The better the bug, the better a chance it has of getting addressed. Meanwhile, I would appreciate having more details about your OS, Songbird version, number of tracks in your library, and any other pertinent details. Thanks!

We've heard more reports of similar issues. I've filed bug 10511 for this.

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UPDATE: Engineering thinks this is caused by our slightly overly aggressive caching: bug 4606.

I have a similar problem:

songbird 0.6.1
song bird is ticking over quite happily using 1 or 2% CPU and about 105MB RAMs but then if i try to use the "Search using songbird" box suddenly Bam it uses up all of one CPU and starts hoarding RAMs like nobodies business stabilising at around 300. It is then unresponsive and has to be closed via taskmanager

I'm running XP (not home edition etc. just plane XP) service pack 2 on two intel 'pentium 4' 3GHz chips, no sound card, no grfs card and 504 RAMs

incidentally I'm fairly sure that in itunes i had 5K+ tunes but songbird only seems to show 1.2k of them. would like to find an alternative to the monstrosity that itunes has become.

Are there any older (maybe more stable versions) available to download?

Edit: also just noticed that the songbird.exe process is not killed when exiting via the conventional way, using either the top left hand [x] or through the file menu. :o)

oh_whoopsy, We've got a bug open for CPU intensive searching. Bug 9646.

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As this problem seems to be a randomly occurring phenomenon, you guys experiencing this could try to delete your profiles and start fresh and see, what that does for you. Maybe it solves the problem and there is some kind of hick up in your profile.
Just open the songbird profile manager (on windows it should be contained in the Start menu) and delete your profile. Then start songbird new and see, what it does after its finished scanning your media.

Tyler out!

i also have this problem. i'm running the release candidate 3 on windows XP Sp3 on a 2.4 Ghz (single core) pentium 4 with 1 gig of ram. songbird uses around an average of 10% of my CPU during playback (and doing nothing else. not even moving mouse pointer) and never drops below using 120MB. i always have it on shuffle and so clicking 'next track' causes it to use about 90% CPU and about 135 MB. i have a very small library (1500 songs) and other than windows live i almost never run other programs while using songbird.

Same issue here... interrupts music now and then... (annoying!)
XP SP3, 1GBRAM, 1,9GHZ, Dell Inspiron 9300
1749 Songs
92-99% CPU - 246MB RAM (not rising)
Got some Add-ons...
I guess it's not resolved yet.

I started to disable all my add-ons and it's much better.
Now enabling one add-on at a time and I found already 1 culpit:
MASHTAPE 1.0.7
takes about 40% of my CPU...
searching for others

Just to add my 2 cents.

Songbird is using up between 700 and 800 mb of ram on my system.

I'm running it on Ubuntu 8.04. It's not really a major issue for me as my system has 8gb of ram and a quad core cpu, but even then, songbird manages to bog down my system, which is pretty insane.

I am, for now, moving away from Songbird, as this is pretty steep. I hope it gets solved faster than Firefox's memory issue was.

Here's an example

http://screencast.com/t/vo93RBEEZ