Memory leak in browser and Deezer desktop app

I totally understand that @timvisee 

We haven't made big improvements on this since we launch the apps but it's on our radar. It's something that needs a lot of development and for that reason, it takes time for a company of our size.

Stay tuned, your feedback is very welcome and will be forwarded to our teams.

4 years later: only 14G is used by Chrome:

With the app (https://github.com/aunetx/deezer-linux) there is no problem.

I also have this problem both on Linux and Windows. Firefox (the deezer tab) sometimes takes all of the available memory in my system, causing the entire system to hang and crash.

After closing the tab the memory is released.

I have the same problem that everyone here, in my case on the website on Windows 10 with Firefox. I usually stream only for a few hours per session, so it doesn't crash my system, but in the task manager the huge memory usage accumulating on Firefox when I'm streaming on Deezer is very visible.

I do have another very strange problem which I think might also be related somehow to this memory leak issue: Since the end of last year, I can't listen to the longest tracks on Deezer anymore. Whenever a track is over 20-minute long (not something unusual in the genres of music I listen to), after the first 2 or 3 minutes it systematically stops with an error message saying that it can't be loaded. If I manually move the cursor further into the track, the same thing happens again after a couple of minutes. That never happens on shorter tracks, so I guess it's due to the weight of the longer tracks. And in fact, the only way I've found to be able to read those long tracks is to reduce the audio quality, if I put it at only 128kb/s instead of 320kb/s, then it works. But it's not a really satisfaying solution…

I've already talked about this problem on the French forum but no one was able to reproduce it, so I'm left alone with it. I've searched on my side and can't see anything that could explain it (the problem doesn't come from my internet connection or anything), so I think maybe it has something to do with this issue or some related cache overload, but I'm not technically savvy enough to understand how and why. I just thought maybe it could be worth trying to report this problem here, I don't know, but excuse-me if you think it's out of subject.

Adding myself to the (un)happy queue. Yep, memory leak happened to me as well on latest Firefox/Linux Mint.

Oddly it didn’t happen few weeks ago on Chromium (not Chrome) though.

Tomorrow I’ll revert on Chromium just for the sake of testing.

Still, it’s a bit of a shame that using a website (“web app” is just a silly synonym of) crumbles your PC :-/… this isn’t a *bug*, it’s poor design.

And yes, if you’re unaware of, we’re in 2021.

Hey @Bram D

We don't fully support Linux yet - the development of an app is on the plans, but we still need more time. Could I kindly ask you to try Deezer on Chromium to see if the leak is similar? Thank you for keeping us updated 

On Windows do you also use Firefox?

I use Chrome OS and no issue like this.

Have you tried to reinstalling browser. I must be extremely lucky, but nothing like this.

It played for hours now on my Chromebook during the work day and the evening.

On my three week journey with Deezer I can’t find anything big. The ones I do find need work, I’ve took moments to surf on this community and most of this are either in the fix or coming.

Isn’t Chromium almost the same as Chrome and Chrome OS?

It is still leaking and crashing on Windows 10. App from MS Store also have memory leak problem and it keeps crashing several times per day.

If you won’t fix it -- I’ll cancel subscription as soon as Spotify will provide HiFi plan.

Actually, I have noticed this in the electron, official, native app version too( app version of windows, that is avalaible in Linux with some tweaks). The memory is being increased by the time you are using the player.

But with more hours is worse, the app increase them memory ram usage until “ no” limits, because I have seen deezer using 0.7 GB itself so… Electron is deezer by itself because deezer is build with electron at some “ easy” way to say, you can ask your developpers.

To sum up,. the app is getting more memory like the playing time is higher.

So in little words, this is likely to happen too in windows, and I think is not so high priority but this has to be addresed in some time… ( in browser and app versions, both)

Uf, native app sounds me like the final of “not “ oficially supported electron tweaked app for Linux!

So please, be warned, most Linux users ( 670 votes more or less are much users) are going to leave deezer unless they have an app to play music.

PD: the native app is efficient, so a good idea I think. But have in mind compability things like Linux one. I think there are much apis that are multiplatform so .. please

@Rudi can we change title ( too “ memory leaks on browser and app”)once a time it’s confirmed that windows app ( in windows) is having the same problem with memory leaks? For me in Linux is happening and this is probably a windows too problem so..