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Macbook (Sonoma) Problem
rito:
Hello!
Since I installed Sonoma yesterday, the temperature of my Macbook Pro goes through the roof while using Mediacenter (31.0.60). The Activity Monitor shows 90% CPU usage and the fans start spinning. Usually the fans stay quiet with almost all programs - before, Sonoma Mediacenter did not bother the CPU or the fans at all. There are also problems with MC's menus - I need three or four clicks to open any menu of the program.
The high CPU usage happens only while playing music (does not matter how a FLAC files is encoded). As soon as MC sits idle, the temperature and the usage go down.
I'll attach a screenshot to show you what's going on
blgentry:
I upgraded to Sonoma 15 minutes ago. MC31.0.59 uses about 20 - 30% CPU on my system. I have the spectrum displays disabled (in the area where the song name is shown). Those consume a TON of CPU on Mac.
In TheaterView, it consumes closer to 50% CPU. This is still not an issue on my system (M1 MacBook).
The menus are erratic. On a secondary display the menus sometimes will not appear at all. Right now they are working but don't respond immediately to clicks. Sometimes a single menu seems to get stuck even when clicking the header of another menu.
It's playing music normally as far as I can tell. I'll bet the UI issues get resolved pretty soon.
Brian.
rito:
Disabling the spectrum displays brings me down to 50% cpu and the temperature stays down. thx for the hint!
bob:
14.0 or 14.1 ?
I'm not seeing that behavior.
blgentry:
Regarding the menus only working intermittently: I'm running MacOS 14.0.
I see this behavior after switching away from MC31 (focusing on something else) and then coming back to it. Menus sometimes take 2 clicks. Other times they will not work at all. The "Media Center 31" menu always works. It's the other 6 menus that malfunction.
Restarting MC31 makes them work again for a while.
Brian.
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