Bug: High CPU usage (~100%) while using Airpods

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Bug: High CPU usage (~100%) while using Airpods #823

Open xavio opened 1 year ago

xavio commented 1 year ago

[x] I have checked for a similar issue and sure it hasn't been reported before.

Describe the bug Noticed my MacBook (i9 2019) was running the fans a lot and checked Activity Monitor. eqMac seems to run consistently at ~101%, even after restarting the app. Just using the EQ, no other settings or enhancements. Tried other Bluetooth devices (such as QC35) both those doesn't trigger the CPU spike. 3.5mm speakers aren't affected either.

Steps to Reproduce Switch from any sound source to Airpods.

Expected behaviour People have talked about single digit percents of CPU usage before, so around 100% seems a bit out of the ordinary. Thought I'd report it.

Setup information:

Tried both speakers through 3.5mm and BT devices (AirPods, QC35)
- macOS Version: 13.2.1
- eqMac Version 1.7.10
- Driver Version 2.4.3
- eqMac UI Version 4.6.3 (Remote)

SeikilosLin commented 1 year ago

same issue. m1 MacBook Air. I use statmenu to monitor my cpu usage, every time I switch from/to AirPods the cpu goes up to 40% with temperature rising to 70 C. The high CPU usage stops if I click eqMac icon to show its window.

ian-h-chamberlain commented 1 year ago

I'm not sure if this is exactly the same, but this morning I opened Activity Monitor to find that coreaudiod was using nearly 1000% (!) CPU, with Core Audio Driver (eqMac.driver) also fairly high around 80-90% CPU. My Mac was nearly unusable and certainly I wasn't getting any audio through my earbuds.

Quitting and restarting eqMac seems to have resolved the issue for now, so maybe that would also be a workaround for some others. In my case the issue began after waking my laptop from sleep and connected my Bluetooth earbuds. More system details:

macOS 13.5.1 (22G90)
eqMac v1.7.10
driver v2.4.3
UI v4.7.3 (Remote)

ragauskl commented 5 months ago

Does the audio output start switching between AirPods and AirPods (eqMac) back and forth when the CPU usage issue occurs?

rehoehle commented 2 months ago

This Ticket is a bit older but when i connect my BT headphones it goes to 100% and start stuttering. Then i have to stop and restart the app.

ragauskl commented 2 months ago

What version are you on @rehoehle ? If it's not 1.8.8 can you update to it by enabling Beta Program in settings and see if the issue still occurs?

rehoehle commented 2 months ago

@ragauskl i've updated before an hour to the 1.8.8. I will test if it's working now.