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by Veratyr 3110 days ago
Considering that MPD, which is doing the actual music playing, is only 13MB (https://www.musicpd.org/download/win32/0.20.13/), yeah, it seems crazy that this bundle is 160MB.

Electron doesn't even have any inclination to fix it: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2003

They could even probably use Chromium Embedded Framework, which is usually ~40MB and get a decent improvement. The binary would only be 4x the necessary size rather than 10x then.