New 2023 Spotify Plugin

[TubularBells]

Hi! I just posted the following on a related thread:

Volumio 3.742 + Spotify plugin 4.10 Bugs

Hello, Is it possible there’s another issue with this plugin that could be making Volumio unresponsive or extremely sluggish? Ever since the issues reported here (which I also encountered); I’ve also run into the following: Spotify plugin interferes with ALSA, even when not in use: I was trying to use Tidal Connect and ran into the red “unable to use ALSA device” error. When I tried resetting the player by switching output device from a USB or I2S DAC to, say, headphones or HDMI out; I’d get…

Is it possible that the Spotify Plugin may be affecting overall system responsiveness?