Symfonium staying in background for many hours without using it

Pony · March 10, 2025, 5:31pm

Issue description:

Hello there , I just found that symfonium app stay in background for hours even if I dont use it or only for 1 hour .

I saw that by checking battery apps usage ,I took screenshots and compared between them and nothing fix that battery drain except if I choose ''optimized battery ‘’ but I cant play more than 2/3 songs if the screen is off .

I tried disable anonymous analytics/anonymous report ,or ''use internal Decoder ‘’ but nothing fix the battery drain

I can see network usage too but I dont cast at all (only play songs locally ).

Thanks

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Upload description: Hello there , I just found that symfonium app stay in background for hours even if I dont use it or only for 1 hour . I saw that by checking battery apps usage ,I took screenshots and compared between them and nothing fix that battery drain except if I choose ''optimized battery ‘’ but I cant play more than 2/3 songs if the screen is off . I tried disable anonymous analytics/anonymous report ,or ''use internal Decoder ‘’ but nothing fix the battery drain I can see network usage too but I dont cast at all (only play songs locally ). The log is with Ponyloverr nickname . Thanks

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Tolriq · March 10, 2025, 7:05pm

From the logs the app properly does nothing when not playing media, your OS restart the app, but it does not use CPU or battery.

11h27 hours in background but CPU use 25 min for the 25 min the screen was on.

Pony · March 12, 2025, 12:29am

Thank you for the explanation but do you know why there are some wifi packets without cast?

Tolriq · March 12, 2025, 6:47am

Could be a license check or if you have not disabled it anonymous analytics, but again there’s nearly none.

Pony · March 12, 2025, 10:18am

thanks a lot ! you can close this ticket ,thanks for the explanations

Frankly · April 7, 2025, 4:35pm

New user here on 12.2 and I’m seeing very high battery/cpu use when not using the app…also quite high when I am using the app. I realize it’s doing a lot more than most simple players but perhaps some options to reduce background activity would be considered in the future. Or a guide on how to optimize for best battery life.

Tolriq · April 7, 2025, 6:07pm

Again there’s no known unwanted background usage and this user actually had none.

Open your own issue with logs and details making you think that Symfonium use battery.

Frankly · April 7, 2025, 6:14pm

Running unrestricted seems to be the problem on my device. Optimized is much better.

Tolriq · April 7, 2025, 6:25pm

Again no it does really change anything, if you have details open an issue to fix if there’s something to fix.

It only prevents some auto start features of you disable.

Frankly · April 8, 2025, 12:53am

I will enable debug and follow the process to duplicate the issue and open a case. For quick reference, here’s a comparison of your app vs. Qobuz. They both use Wifi to stream, of course.

4 hours, 16 mins with Symfonium used 15% battery. 3 hours, 4 min. using Qobuz only consumed 3% battery. 4x as much power is used. I’ve disabled everything I don’t want or need and my Jellyfin server is complete with metadata scraping and fully synced with Symfonium.