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Is Deezer app optimised for macOS on M1 (silicon) chip? Has relatively high CPU usage.

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My computer becomes noticeably slower when Deezer is running. It’s most noticeable when there’s already a fair amount of other apps running. 

This is on a MacBook Air M1 computer.

Whilst the CPU usage isn’t anything extreme, it does often sit at around 12% for “Deezer Helper (Renderer)” is simply playing music in the background.

What is concerning is that when actively engaging with the app, CPU for that process readily jumps up to 40% +.

That seems high to me … for activities that I would think are fairly lite weight. I get less CPU usage from massive applications like Adobe apps, etc.

 

Here’s some examples:

 

After clicking on Explore

 

After clicking on Albums

 

After clicking on “Music”

 

After clicking on an Artists name, and brining up that artist’s page

 

 

Is this something Deezer developers are aware of?

Is Deezer optimised for M1 / silicon chips?

 

Thanks,

Jonathan

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Is Deezer optimised for M1 / silicon chips?

Hey @Jonathan789 

The desktop app is not optimized for M1. 😐

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Are the performance issues something Deezer developers are aware of?

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Are the performance issues something Deezer developers are aware of?

@Yula - Help please. 😉

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A community manager in the past did mention about ‘possible’ development of a M1 version, but it would be interesting to see if this is still a possibility or moved to the back burner (especially with the release shortly of the MacBook Pro & Air M2 versions). 

 

He/him. EDM, Dance, Hardstyle, techno & trance fan using iPhone 14pm, Mac M2 & Apple TV .
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Are the performance issues something Deezer developers are aware of?

The Mac 'app' is a Chromium web browser instance with a bunch of supporting processes wrapped up in an Electron wrapper that looks like a Mac app. Despite appearances there's nothing lite about it. Don't expect it to get any better as long as they use Electron or a similar web wrapper. 

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Thanks @Rick P. and @Zayn-T for these answers. 
So what I now understand is that the Deezer “app” on macOS is a browser wrapper, and not a native macOS app (well, the wrapper platform is likely native macOS app, but that’s about it).

So the performance issues are not likely to improve.

I have a couple of browser wrapper applications on my system, so I will create my own wrapper and see if they happen to be any more efficient than whatever Deezer “app” has used for that purpose.

Cheers … 
Jonathan

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If you only listen to music on your computer while it's connected to the internet, using your regular web browser is likely to be more efficient. 

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If you only listen to music on your computer while it's connected to the internet, using your regular web browser is likely to be more efficient. 

Indeed. That’s a good idea. Will do that.

Although I’ve downloaded so much music via the App (I have relatively limited data plan where I am), I am loathed to download it all again. Might have to just do it … better now than later.

👍

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Actually … I now see that the browser version doesn’t allow for downloading music (makes sense, now that I think it through). So looks like I’ll be sticking with the App.

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Any update regarding apple silicon port? It is not a big deal for developers but more than 1 year passed from releasing first m1 mac has been rolled out. 

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Good day, apple silicon is out quite long and the app has issues on said macs. Please consider making it run under silicon natively.

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Any update regarding apple silicon port?

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@Sergey.Ambaryan 

As far as I know, there is no plan for a Mac version of the desktop app adapted to an M processor in the near future. 😑

Incidentally, I also have an M-Mac and would be happy about an optimized desktop app.

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Yes @dee_dirk, that would be great! 

All I can tell you at the moment, something will happen soon, but we don’t have any date yet. 😐

Any updates, I let you know guys! 👌🏼

Take care.🙂

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Just a consideration: With the M-processor on the Mac, it is possible to use iPad versions. However, the developer must explicitly allow it. 🤓

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Yes @dee_dirk, that would be great! 

All I can tell you at the moment, something will happen soon, but we don’t have any date yet. 😐

Any updates, I let you know guys! 👌🏼

Take care.🙂

Just upgraded to version 6.0.10 (fully rebranded Deezer Desktop), and I find it quite outrageous that it is still not a Universal or arm64 binary.

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Yes @Mikauto11 I saw it toо this morning, and expected to be optimized for Mac M series, but no, its still Intel. And Spotify works extremely well on M series, fast and very optimized.

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Multiple months later, but for the discussion about performance not likely to improve, these are false statements. Performance using Electron will very much improve after Deezer has changed a single configuration line in their package.json file, namely to change the arch value from “x64” to “universal”. It won’t be as good as a native app, but it will at least be decent.
 

The last paragraph of the official Electron documentation explains why: https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon

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Deezer is among the very last Electron app to not have made the switch.

Before it, the following ElectronJS apps succeeded to change one line of configuration and build on arm64 on my laptop :)

  • Microsoft Teams
  • Skype
  • GeoGebra Classic 6
  • Discord
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Windows 95 (the application)
  • Mattermost
  • StarUML
  • VMWare Fusion
  • Redis Insight V2 
  • Docker Desktop
  • GeoGebra Graphing Calculator
  • Hyper
  • GitHub Desktop
  • Insomnia
  • Adobe UXP Developer Tool
  • GitKraken
  • Molotov TV
  • Trello
  • Diagrams.net
  • AdGuard for Safari
  • Slack
  • Bootstrap Studio
  • MongoDB Compass

It’s about time! The only ElectronJS apps that did not make the switch are:

 

  • Deezer (why?)
  • Moodle Desktop (Abandoned, uses Moodle Mobile instead)
  • Unity Hub (Unity itself is Apple Silicon ready)
  • Neo4j Desktop (the Neo4j Browser is Apple Silicon ready)
  • PIA (their latest update was released before Apple Silicon, and the upcoming release will be compatible)
  • GravitDesigner (abandoned)
  • DS Update (I guess car manufacturers are not experts with software)

and that’s it. Really, Deezer should not be on that bottom list anymore! 

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Nous sommes maintenant en 2024 et pourtant il n’y a toujours pas de support Apple Silicon (alias ARM) dans l’application Deezer Desktop pour macOS.

Au-delà de décevant pour beaucoup.

Veuillez trier l'application de bureau ou au moins autoriser l'utilisation de la variante Deezer iPadOS sous macOS.

C'est l'heure.

Salutations

 

It is now 2024 and yet there is still no Apple Silicon (aka ARM) support in the Deezer Desktop app for macOS.

Beyond disappointing for many.

Please sort out the Desktop app or at least allow the Deezer iPadOS variant to be used under macOS.

It’s time.

Regards

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Hi @dugeem thanks for raising this topic. Unfortunately in coming months there isn’t anything plan to move in that direction.

Nevertheless, I have asked again if there is any plans for 2024. 

I will keep everybody update as soon as something new arise.

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I would like to voice my support with an optimized version for the current iMac/Macbook versions.  The one we currently have is not efficient. 

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Hi @dugeem thanks for raising this topic. Unfortunately in coming months there isn’t anything plan to move in that direction.

Nevertheless, I have asked again if there is any plans for 2024. 

I will keep everybody update as soon as something new arise.

Apparently lazyness and uncompetence of french dev is not a legend …. they just have to check one tick in their apple dev account to allow IpadOS app on MACOS Silicon and that would be one step ahead but they just decided not to take 5 min of their precious cofee break and ignore their paying customers ( 20% price increase last year..) … M1 behind out for 3 years is a shame for anybody working on the dev team at deezer …

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Hi @archaic_email @Olh01, I've just received an update from our developers, and they mentioned that they're actively working on a solution for the issue. However, there are still some milestones to address before it's fully resolved.

Given this, I would like to ask a bit more patience until they can completely resolve the problem.

Thank you very much for your understanding.

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Appreciate the follow ups! You’re awesome. 😁 @Leonídia.Deezer 

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