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High CPU/energy usage with 'Now Playing'

Features Request & Bugs

Hello. I've noticed that Seam has been using a significant amount of CPU and energy when there is audio playing and this is reflected in the notch.


These are the ‘Now Playing’ settings:

Notice that toggling the “Now Playing activity” doesn’t disable the animation. I suspect it’s the animation that is causing this. When scrolling up to hide the the animation the CPU usage lowers intermediately, although play/pause toggle shows it again.

Version is 1.1.0, but have noticed this since at least a week ago.

Posted by over-the-air ·
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  • Ramzi

    Team•

    Feb 16

    Thanks for the details! Super helpful.

    Which Mac version and Mac device do you have?

    Will check and release a fix today, and check for any other memory leaks while I’m at it.

    • over-the-air

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      Feb 17

      A MBP running macOS 26.3.

      Let me know if you want me to follow any debugging process.

      • Ramzi

        Team•

        Feb 17

        I’ve made several improvements on the latest version released today and will work on making it more battery efficient over the next days!

      • Ramzi

        Team•

        Feb 17

        Even better now ;)

        • over-the-air

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          Feb 17

          Awesome, thanks for the quick fix.

  • over-the-air

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    Feb 20

    @Ramzi Quick question, is it expected to have the “audio wave” animation active when there is no media playing? It seems confusing and possible CPU cycles waste.

    • Ramzi

      Team•

      Feb 20

      No it’s not. When are you experiencing that ? Were you playing music before? I need a bit more context :)