Comment 44 for bug 405364

This is not fixed yet.
Let me know what other info you need.

notify-osd:
  Installed: 0.9.24-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.9.24-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.24-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 ps auxw | grep notify-osd | grep -v gre
2028 0.0 0.5 32972 11004 ? S 14:13 0:02 /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd

I can watch the process increase in memory proportionally to the album art file size, it doesn't matter what media player i'm using.

-Eldon