RAM rises on v1.19.0

[qtotter]

Windows 11 Pro 22H2/Core i5-8350U/RAM 12GB

I tried to download a playlist of 103 songs. The RAM useage before download was 3.7GB (31%), but it gradually rose to around 90% after 7 mins or so as download proceeded, and download just stopped nearly at the end after 101 songs. The download process was still running, and the RAM useage remained around 90% untill I terminated the app. It seems like a typical memory leak situation. Any thoughts?

If I do the same download on Core i5-1035G1/RAM 24GB, its RAM useage went up to 14GB (59%) and stayed there after 101 songs untill I killed the app. It seems it was trying to download or encode the rest two songs, and some process internally hangs up?

Thx!

[Zo-Bro-23]

Does the issue persist with other versions of YTM (1.18, 1.17, etc) and other downloading tools like youtube-dl?

[qtotter]

I'm a newbie here, and I haven't tried any older builds. I'll come back to you when I reinstall an oler one or two. Thx!

[qtotter]

I tried 1.18, 1.17, but the results were the same altho RAM useage was slightly smaller than 1.19. Thx,

[Zo-Bro-23]

I tried 1.18, 1.17, but the results were the same altho RAM useage was slightly smaller than 1.19. Thx,

Hmm. What about other tools like youtube-dl?

[TheBossMagnus]

altho RAM useage was slightly smaller than 1.19. Thx

I can confirm, about 100 mb increase from 1.18 to 1.19

[qtotter]

Hmm. What about other tools like youtube-dl?

Again, I'm a newbie with these things. YouTube-dl seems powerful, but I haven't gone through "how to use it" yet. YouTube-dl is just a downloader, and you have to encode downloaded files in your favorite format yourself, right?

I don't think the UI part of this app consumes tons of RAM itself, but it eats up RAM once it downloads songs, and never releases memory even after downloads are done...

[Zo-Bro-23]

See here for instructions to download youtube-dl. Then, run this command (if you're on Windows, open Command Prompt and navigate to the folder with the youtube-dl.exe file by running cd FILE_PATH):

youtube-dl --yes-playlist -x --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --postprocessor-args "-id3v2_version 3" --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --playlist-start NUMBER "PLAYLIST_URL"

Replace NUMBER with the playlist index to start from (use 1 if you're unsure about this) and PLAYLIST_URL with the playlist's URL.

This will download the playlist. The reason I'm asking you to do this is because I want to figure out if the issue pertinent to all youtube playlist downloaders or just the youtube-music application.