Spotify App Breaks When Attempting to Play an Unavailable Song on Spotifyd

[klay2000]

Description When trying to switch to a song that is unavailable the spotify app continues playing the last song and starts acting strangely but spotifyd stops.

To Reproduce

1. connect with spotify connect
2. play any song
3. try to switch to an unavailable song
4. spotify app begins acting strangely

Expected behavior Spotify app stops playing

Compilation flags

• [ ] dbus_mpris
• [ ] dbus_keyring
• [x] alsa_backend
• [ ] portaudio_backend
• [ ] pulseaudio_backend
• [ ] rodio_backend

Versions (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
• Spotifyd: spotifyd 0.3.3
• cargo: cargo 1.63.0 (fd9c4297c 2022-07-01)

[eladyn]

Sorry for not replying earlier.

I'm currently failing to "switch to an unavailable song", since Spotify doesn't show a play icon next to unavailable songs (and neither for playlists with only unavailable songs). Also, when playing a song and skipping to the next track which is unavailable doesn't cause any problems for me.

Would you be able to provide more detailed instructions on how to reproduce the issue?

[klay2000]

This playlist is where I noticed the issue, I think there's something particularly weird about it because you're right, normally you can't try to play unavailable songs.

[eladyn]

Thanks for the reproducer! In the Desktop App, it still wouldn't allow me to start playback, but clicking on the individual songs in the Mobile App reveals the bug that you describe. :+1: I was also able to reproduce it on the newest librespot dev version, so it seems to be an upstream bug. If you'd like, feel free to open an issue and link to this one over there. Otherwise, I could probably do that as well at the weekend.