Tagger: High CPU Usage With M4A Fingerprint Calculation

(Okay, I admit that this title was a joke.)

Recently I noticed that my computer starts overheating for no reason. Sometimes, after a while the fan kicks in really hard and my computer gets really hot. When I say really it’s, like, it suddenly starts to get really noisy.

It happened again a few minutes ago, so I opened Mission Center, and I may have found the culprit 👀

I remember that I’ve opened Tagger briefly to edit some tracks, and closed it directly after using the shortcut ctrl + Q before continuing doing some things (using GNOME Builder, Edge and Workbench, along with other tiny apps like the Icon Library, Typography, etc.) When I took the screen, only Mission Center was opened though.

Now that I think about, I’m really unsure if the fan issue started since I use Tagger, or only since I use the last beta version 🤔 Edit : still unsure if it’s related to the beta version, but when I think about some times when it got really noisy, I think it was always when I used tagger, sometimes quite a lot.

I’m gonna do some tests to see. I didn’t saw any other issue about that, so maybe it’s just me or under really particular conditions 🤔.

But if it’s really Tagger, wow draining nearly 30% of the battery in about 20 minutes to edit some metadatas is really a lot lol. (it’s not even exagerated x))

Anyways, I’m still in vacations but I’m gonna post a reply if I have some other infos or precise steps to reproduce. If you have any request feel free to ask ! (I’m using Fedora Silverblue on a Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2)