Comment by jorvi
3 days ago
Interestingly enough the same happens on both Spotify's desktop and Chromecast / Apple TV application when you "song surf".
If you rapidly keep skipping through a song, then to the next one and repeat, the performance will keep on tanking. After a while it'll take 5-10 seconds just to load a song, going to other UI sections will take 3-5 seconds to load, and eventually the application completely locks up and soft reboots itself.
Probably JavaScript garbage collectors getting overwhelmed.
Javascript garbage collector wouldn't take so long... probably it's launching a new thread or process (for example, DRM decryption) for every song, and there becomes too many of them. Or it runs out of memory and starts swapping.