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Two freezes and a platform. The freezes are the urgent half — they affect the released Linux and Windows binaries today; macOS enablement is what uncovered them.

Fixes #496 (losing the audio output device) — Fixes #497 (an undecodable radio station)

The freezes

Both are the same class: an unbounded wait on the serial IoEvent pump. When one of those never returns it takes every unrelated request queued behind it, so the app looks frozen — search dead, transport dead — rather than merely silent.

  • Losing the audio output device freezes the app (all decoded sources) #496: rodio's clear() and try_seek() wait on the audio callback with no timeout. Lose the output device and that callback never runs again. LocalPlayer now refuses those calls once the device is gone, and the driver's tick rebuilds the output on the new default device and restages the track there, paused where it stopped — what macOS itself does when AirPods come out.
    Detection has two shapes and only one is an error anybody reports: cpal sees a device removed, but it cannot see the OS moving its default output elsewhere, which is the common case and leaves the stream feeding a device nobody hears. So the sink also remembers what it opened and compares against the current default.
  • Some radio stations freeze the app instead of failing to play #497: rodio's symphonia probes the format by scanning for a marker it recognises, and a live stream never ends. stream.rs already caps connect and header waits for exactly this reason; the probe was the third step of that sequence and was unbounded. Now capped — and giving up cancels the download, not the reader, because the probe parks inside read where a flag would never be seen.

macOS

LocalPlayer::open_sink() bailed on macOS. That bail was never a fix for an observed crash in this engine: it has been there since the commit that introduced the player, inherited from #9/#20, which were librespot-playback's own rodio-backend on an older rodio. The lockfile still carries both — librespot pulls rodio 0.21/cpal 0.16, this player uses rodio 0.22/cpal 0.17 and the rewritten DeviceSinkBuilder API. cpal already ran on macOS in every shipped build via audio-viz-cpal, and route_decoded_macos_event was already written and unreachable.

Native Spotify streaming is untouched and keeps portaudio-backend.

This changes what macOS release binaries contain: cd.yml's two macOS rows gain the five sources, so those binaries get bigger and the YouTube source wants yt-dlp, matching the Windows row.

What is verified, and what is not

Nothing in CI covered any of this — all seven legs are ubuntu-latest. This PR adds a macos-latest check + clippy job using cd.yml's macOS feature set, since that is the only leg that compiles the cfg(target_os = "macos") arms, portaudio, macos-media and audio-viz-cpal. No test job: the suite is platform-independent logic the Linux legs already run, and the device tests are #[ignore]d because runners have no audio output.

So the audio path itself was verified by hand on real hardware (M-series Mac, macOS 26.6): local files, radio and YouTube playing over built-in output and over Bluetooth, headphones disconnected mid-track, and the previously-hanging station. Seven #[ignore]d live tests that drive the real sink (radio, YouTube, Qobuz) pass locally, plus six device tests in player.rs — including one timeout-asserted on a worker thread, because a regression there deadlocks instead of failing.

The five ignored Subsonic live tests fail on main too: demo.navidrome.org now returns an empty playlist first, so playlists[0] has no tracks. Unrelated, untouched.

Deliberate limits

  • Stations in formats the bundled decoder cannot identify still will not play — they now fail in a second or two instead of freezing. Making MPEG-2 ADTS AAC work is a one-line upstream change in symphonia (its AdtsReader claims only ff f1, not ff f9); worth filing there, not worth a fork here.
  • On a device change, radio is torn down rather than restaged: a live stream has no position to return to.
  • A track playing from the native queue resumes at the next queued item; there is no "replay this queue item" event and inventing one felt out of scope.
  • open_sink no longer falls back to sweeping every other output device (that path required rodio's helper, which installs an eprintln! error callback that corrupts the TUI). It still falls back across the default device's other configs; a machine whose default output cannot be opened now gets a clear error instead of audio from a surprise device.

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  • New Features

    • macOS releases now support Local Files, Subsonic, Internet Radio, YouTube, and Qobuz sources.
    • Playback can recover when the default audio device changes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Playback no longer freezes when an audio device is disconnected.
    • Failed device recovery now cleans up queued playback correctly.
    • Unrecognized radio streams now fail promptly instead of hanging.
  • Documentation

    • Updated installation and platform-support documentation to reflect macOS source availability.

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`LocalPlayer` is the one rodio sink shared by Local Files, Subsonic,
Internet Radio, YouTube and Qobuz, and its `open_sink()` bailed on macOS,
so all five sources answered "No audio output for local playback".

That bail was never a fix for an observed `LocalPlayer` crash: it has
been there since the commit that introduced the player, inherited from
issues LargeModGames#9/LargeModGames#20, which were librespot-playback's own `rodio-backend` on an
older rodio (the lockfile still has both: librespot pulls rodio 0.21 /
cpal 0.16, this player uses rodio 0.22 / cpal 0.17 and the rewritten
`DeviceSinkBuilder` API). cpal already ran on macOS in every shipped
build via `audio-viz-cpal`, and the macOS decoded-source media routing
in `route_decoded_macos_event` was already written and unreachable.

Measured on CoreAudio before removing the gate: the two `#[ignore]`d
device tests (now un-gated, they were dead code on macOS) plus the live
sink tests for radio, YouTube and Qobuz all play. The five Subsonic live
failures are the public Navidrome demo server returning an empty first
playlist, and reproduce unchanged on main.

Native Spotify streaming is untouched and keeps `portaudio-backend`.
The macOS release rows in cd.yml gain the five source features to match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XTSifDzSFpuSUyeBTJWUii
Unplugging the output device with a decoded source playing did not just
go silent: it froze the app. No audio callback runs again afterwards, and
rodio's `clear` and `try_seek` wait on that callback with no timeout
(`sleep_until_end`, and the seek feedback channel). Those calls run
straight from the serial IoEvent pump, so one that never returns takes
every unrelated event behind it down too - which is why searching stopped
working, not only playback.

Losing the device has two shapes and only one is an error anybody
reports. cpal notices the device being *removed* and says
`DeviceNotAvailable`. It cannot notice the far more common case: the OS
moving its **default output** elsewhere - headphones unplugged, AirPods
back in their case - which leaves the stream bound to a device nobody is
listening to. So `LocalPlayer` raises a flag from its own cpal error
callback *and* remembers the device it opened, comparing that against the
current default. A name that cannot be read on either side counts as
"cannot tell", never as a change: mid-switch there is briefly no default
at all, and tearing playback down for that would be worse than the
silence being caught. The tick polls this every 250ms with one session
live, so it costs one property query per tick.

That callback is ours for a second reason: rodio's default one
`eprintln!`s (its `tracing` feature is off here) straight into the TUI,
the same corruption `log_on_drop(false)` already guards against.

The four methods that would wait on the audio thread now refuse once the
device is gone, and the waits themselves are bounded, because a detector
that misses one day is a frozen app again. Not by a plain timeout: a dead
device and a source stalled on the network are indistinguishable from the
caller's side, and Qobuz alone allows its stream 60s, so cutting that
short would break slow playback to fix a freeze. `bounded()` re-asks the
device every 3s instead, gives up at once when it really went away, and
only past a 90s ceiling - nothing identifiably wrong, still no answer -
declares it lost anyway. A pump that never returns is worse than a track
that never plays.

Refusing only stops the hang, so the driver's tick recovers: it polls
`device_lost()`, rebuilds the output on the new default device with
`reopen()`, and restages the track there paused at its old position
(replay + seek + pause, ordered by the serial pump) - what macOS itself
does when AirPods come out, and the reason not to resume playing. The
recovery runs before every advance block on purpose: a dead sink never
drains, so `is_finished()` stays false and would otherwise be read as a
still-playing track. Radio is torn down instead (a live stream has no
position, and pausing its ring buffer stalls it), and the native queue
slot lets the existing advance take the next item.

Not a macOS-only bug - a USB DAC on Linux or Windows does the same - so
the fix is in the shared engine, where all ~20 call sites route through.

Four device tests cover it: the refusal, timeout-asserted on a worker
thread because a regression deadlocks rather than fails; a default that
moved reading as lost while an unreadable name does not; a wait giving up
at its first check once the device is gone; and reopen returning a live,
empty, paused sink at the previous volume.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XTSifDzSFpuSUyeBTJWUii
…reeze the app

Picking certain stations played nothing, reported nothing, and left the
app unusable: audio already playing kept going while search and the
transport controls went dead until restart.

Tune-in ends by working out the stream's format, and rodio's symphonia
does that by scanning for a start-of-stream marker it recognises. A live
stream has no end to stop that scan. Its `AdtsReader` registers only the
MPEG-4 ADTS marker `ff f1`, not MPEG-2's `ff f9` - which is what much
European radio broadcasts - so the scan ran forever, on the serial pump,
taking every unrelated request with it. Reproduced against Radio Bruno:
the stream opens in under a second (`audio/aacp`, ICY name read) and
`prepare_stream` never returns. `Probe::format` takes the mime hint as
`_hint` and ignores it, so no content-type mapping can help here.

Connect and header waits in this file were already capped for exactly
this reason; the probe was the third such step and was not. It is now.

Giving up has to stop the *download*, not the reader. The first attempt
was a flag the reader checked before each read, and a stack sample showed
why that is not enough: the probe parks *inside* `read`, waiting on
stream-download for bytes that never come, so the flag is never reached.
Cancelling the download marks the stream done and wakes every waiter, so
the read returns, the probe hits end-of-stream, and the thread and its
download are released together - the test process now exits in 13s where
it used to hang at runtime shutdown.

Stations in formats the bundled decoder cannot identify still will not
play; they now fail in a second or two and leave the app working.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XTSifDzSFpuSUyeBTJWUii
The seven legs are all `ubuntu-latest`, so nothing in CI compiles the
`#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]` arms, the portaudio playback backend,
`macos-media`, or `audio-viz-cpal`. That was survivable while macOS
release binaries shipped no decoded sources; now that they do, a break in
any of it reaches users with no gate in front of it.

Check and clippy only, following `headless-streaming`: what risks
breaking here is a target-gated arm or a feature that does not exist on
macOS. The test suite is platform-independent logic the Linux legs
already run, and the tests that would exercise the audio path are
`#[ignore]`d because CI runners have no audio output, so a `test` job
would buy nothing for the extra runner time. One job rather than two so
the slow part - spinning up a macOS runner - happens once.

Its feature list is cd.yml's macOS release row, the same way the
`all-sources` leg tracks the Linux one, with the same
`brew install openssl@3 portaudio` that release builds use.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XTSifDzSFpuSUyeBTJWUii
Every other entry in the file cites its issue; these two could not until
the reports existed.

Refs LargeModGames#496, LargeModGames#497

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change enables decoded music sources in macOS releases, adds macOS CI validation, recovers playback after output-device loss, bounds radio format probing, and updates documentation and release notes.

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Audio platform and recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
LocalPlayer device handling
src/infra/audio/player.rs, Cargo.toml
LocalPlayer now opens macOS output devices, detects device loss, bounds blocking audio calls, and reopens the sink. Tests cover refusal, detection, bounded waits, and recovery.
Driver playback recovery
src/core/driver/mod.rs, src/infra/network/mod.rs, src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs
Driver::tick recovers decoded sessions and queue playback after device loss. Failed queue-slot reopening uses FinishNativeQueue.
Radio stream cancellation
src/infra/radio/stream.rs, src/infra/radio/dispatch.rs
Format probing now has PROBE_TIMEOUT. A timeout cancels the download and reports an error without publishing a session.
macOS build and release integration
.github/workflows/*, README.md, docs/installation.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md, CHANGELOG.md, tools/gates.count
macOS release builds include the five extra music sources. CI adds macOS check and clippy coverage. Documentation and release notes describe the updated support and recovery behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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The PR is mergeable with owner awareness: concurrent playback recovery can occasionally target a retired audio sink or miss cancellation, and native queue completion in free-source sessions may display an incorrect Spotify connection message. These are bounded playback and messaging issues rather than data or security failures.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CpalCallback
  participant LocalPlayer
  participant DriverTick
  participant PlaybackSession
  CpalCallback->>LocalPlayer: set lost flag on DeviceNotAvailable
  DriverTick->>LocalPlayer: device_lost()
  DriverTick->>LocalPlayer: reopen()
  LocalPlayer->>PlaybackSession: restage track and restore playback state
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  participant RadioDispatch
  participant StreamDownload
  participant FormatProbe
  participant RadioSession
  RadioDispatch->>StreamDownload: open stream
  RadioDispatch->>FormatProbe: prepare stream with PROBE_TIMEOUT
  FormatProbe-->>RadioDispatch: timeout
  RadioDispatch->>StreamDownload: invoke OpenedStream.cancel
  RadioDispatch-->>RadioSession: report error without publishing a session
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- Around line 44-49: Update the stale feature-matrix comment near the
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station Spotatui cannot decode no longer freezes the app, while preserving the
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- Around line 483-486: Update Driver::tick and LocalPlayer::reopen so device
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Thanks, the two freeze fixes are right in mechanism, and I verified them on Windows: clippy with the five sources is clean, the six ignored device tests pass on the real WASAPI output, and the new radio test gives up at 10.9 s against the live station. Five things in the recovery path to change before merge, inline below.

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Five things from the PR review, plus the two workflow/CHANGELOG nits:

- Recovery pauses only when cpal reported the device *removed*
  (`device_removed()`), or the session was already paused. A default
  output that merely moved means the user plugged something in, and the
  track now keeps playing there instead of ending on "paused here".
- The radio probe timeout wraps `prepare_stream` only. `timeout`
  abandons a `spawn_blocking` closure but cannot stop it, and the radio
  player is shared, so a probe that matched after the deadline used to
  append the new station to the live sink. `play_prepared` runs after
  the timeout check.
- `bounded()` captures the sink's `Player` and `lost` flag at entry and
  gives up as soon as `reopen` swapped a new sink in, so the ceiling can
  never be charged to the healthy sink. `play_file` re-checks the same
  identity across the decode before appending.
- The queue slot settles its play/pause state *after* the advance block
  has dispatched (the fresh sink is empty, so the advance fires), and a
  failed reopen goes through `FinishNativeQueue` - the teardown a
  drained queue runs - instead of dropping `queue_now` and stranding the
  suspended context and the queued items.
- `open_sink` waits on the init channel with a 5s timeout, which bounds
  `reopen` on the tick and `LocalPlayer::new` with it.

Also: dtolnay/rust-toolchain in the macOS CI job (actions-rs is archived
and runs on node12), the cd.yml feature-matrix comment, and the radio
CHANGELOG heading.

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Pushed 246db13 with all five, plus the three CodeRabbit nits.

Review point Fix
Pauses on every default-output change device_removed() (cpal's lost flag alone) splits removal from a moved default; pause only on removal or an already-paused session
Probe closure keeps running and appends to the shared sink only prepare_stream inside the timeout; play_prepared after the check. play_stream removed (it welded the two together, no other caller)
bounded() / play_file race with reopen both capture the sink identity and bail on !Arc::ptr_eq; the ceiling marks the captured lost flag
Queue arm: advance plays out loud / failure strands state pause settles after the advance dispatch; failure routes through the new IoEvent::FinishNativeQueueresume_or_finish
Unbounded init_rx.recv() recv_timeout(5s), bounding reopen on the tick and LocalPlayer::new. Reopen stays on the tick, per your call — @coderabbitai this also answers the "keep device reopening off the tick path" comment

CodeRabbit nits: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable in the macOS job (actions-rs is archived / node12), the stale cd.yml feature-matrix comment, and the radio CHANGELOG heading.

Verified: fmt, clippy -D warnings on slim / all-sources / headless, cargo test on slim (907) and all-sources (1341), and on this Mac the seven #[ignore]d device tests plus the five live radio ones — including the new a_wait_gives_up_when_the_sink_is_reopened_under_it. tools/gates.count: test_attribute_total 1758 → 1759. CHANGELOG and the three instruction files describe the new pause rule.

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@alessandro-zanni, I verified commit 246db13 by static inspection.

The follow-up addresses the five review points:

  • device_removed() separates cpal-reported removal from a changed default device. Recovery pauses only after removal or when the session was already paused.
  • The radio timeout wraps only LocalPlayer::prepare_stream. play_prepared runs only after the probe succeeds.
  • bounded() and play_file() retain the original sink identity. They reject work when reopen() replaces that sink.
  • IoEvent::FinishNativeQueue routes through resume_or_finish, so failed queue-device recovery uses normal queue teardown.
  • open_sink() uses recv_timeout(DEVICE_OPEN_TIMEOUT), with a five-second limit.

I also confirmed the CI action replacement, the cd.yml comment update, the changelog heading update, and the test-count ratchet.

The reported test results were not independently run in this sandbox.


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URL: https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui/pull/498

Timestamp: 2026-08-28T14:11:15.966Z
Learning: In `src/infra/audio/player.rs`, `LocalPlayer::reopen()` intentionally runs from `Driver::tick` while the UI holds the `App` lock. Therefore `open_sink()` must have a finite initialization timeout. The current implementation uses `DEVICE_OPEN_TIMEOUT` with `init_rx.recv_timeout`.

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Thanks, 246db13 does what each of the five comments asked, and the radio and bounded() fixes are right. One more round on the recovery mechanism before merge. The inline comments below share one root cause: recovery expresses "stay paused" as a PausePlayback queued ahead of async work that ends in sink.play(). A desired-play-state flag on the session that the restage, resume and commit paths read, the way queue_slot_desired_playing already works for the Spotify slot, fixes the context arm, the queue settle step and the suspended-context resume in one place.

Two findings sit in files outside this diff, so no inline anchor:

bounded() waits still run under the App lock. The 3 s poll / 90 s ceiling is reached while the tokio App mutex is held: commit_fetch in src/infra/qobuz/dispatch.rs holds app.lock() across player.play_prepared, the queue resume_local across player.seek, teardown_local / teardown_radio across player.stop through if-let temporaries, and local play_index calls player.stop() on the serial pump. tui/runner.rs takes the same lock on every tick, key and draw, so the infinite freeze became a 90 s freeze in the case bounded() is documented as the backstop for. play_prepared's own doc says to call it off the App lock (see stop_detached); the other sites need the same treatment.

macOS media keys still need a Spotify session. MacMediaManager registration in src/runtime/startup.rs:348 is gated on streaming_attempted, justified by the comment "macOS plays no decoded source", while Windows registers unconditionally so decoded sources get media keys. A macOS user who picks Qobuz or Local Files in the first-run picker and skips the Spotify login (supported since #495) gets no media keys, no Now Playing and no AirPods play/pause for a source that now plays fine, and route_decoded_macos_event is unreachable. Same stale prose: player.rs:124 ("or on macOS"), core/first_run.rs:11 and :55.

Not blocking, a follow-up issue is fine for these:

  • from_device(..).open_sink_or_fallback() drops rodio's open_default_sink sweep over the other outputs. An HDMI default on a powered-off monitor, or a WASAPI exclusive hold, now fails every decoded source and every reopen.
  • On Linux/ALSA cpal's default device is the constant "Default Audio Device", so the name compare can never fire there and only DeviceNotAvailable works.
  • Radio play_prepared returns () and no-ops on a lost device, and the caller publishes radio_playback and shows the station live anyway.
  • Local play_file device errors go to fail_index, which poisons the track and ends a one-track session with "no playable tracks left".

Comment thread src/core/driver/mod.rs
}
$app.dispatch(IoEvent::ReplayCurrentTrack);
if resume_ms > 0 {
$app.dispatch(IoEvent::Seek(resume_ms));

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ReplayCurrentTrack can fail on the fresh sink (a second default flap during the decode, a rejected format), and every per-source replay_current tears its session down on failure. The Seek and PausePlayback queued behind it then find no decoded session and no queue slot, fall through the router chain to Network::handle_network_event, and seek the user's real Spotify player to resume_ms and pause it. Neither event is in event_bypasses_spotify_auth, so a Spotify-free build shows two "Not connected to Spotify" toasts for an unplugged cable instead. Do not queue these blind from the tick: have the replay path apply the seek and the pause state itself once the track is staged, or dispatch them only from its success arm.

Comment thread src/core/driver/mod.rs
if let Some(s) = $app.$playback.as_mut() {
s.advancing = true;
}
$app.dispatch(IoEvent::ReplayCurrentTrack);

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The removal half still expresses "stay paused" as a PausePlayback queued behind work that ends in sink.play(). The replay plays before the pause drains, so a removed device still gets an audible burst on the new default. Qobuz mid-download is worse: replay_current returns early ("still downloading"), the pause pauses the empty sink, then commit_fetch computes was_paused = tempfile.is_some() && is_paused(), which is false in that window, and play_prepared starts the track on the laptop speakers seconds after the user unplugged. Replace the queued pause with a desired-play-state flag on the session that the restage and commit paths read.

Comment thread src/core/driver/mod.rs
))]
if let Some(pause_after) = queue_device_recovered {
if pause_after {
app.dispatch(IoEvent::PausePlayback);

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Two shapes where this settle step misses.

  1. Slot mid-download: advancing is latched and native_queue_advance_due needs !advancing, so the advance block above does not fire. This PausePlayback pauses the empty reopened sink, then finish_decoded_fetch calls play_file, which ends in sink.play(), and the queue continues on the speakers under "paused here".
  2. Queue empty over a suspended Spotify, shuffled Spotify or Radio context: advance_native_queue runs resume_or_finish, which dispatches ResumeSpotifyContext (or the radio equivalent) behind this pause. The pause is a no-op on the idle player and the context resumes at full volume on the new default.

Same fix as the context arm: a desired-play-state flag the resume and commit paths consult, instead of an event that races them.

Comment thread src/core/driver/mod.rs
// No device to play on. Hand the slot to the same teardown a drained
// queue uses: clearing `queue_now` here would strand the suspended
// context (latched `advancing`) and the remaining queued items.
app.dispatch(IoEvent::FinishNativeQueue);

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No latch here. FinishNativeQueue is dispatched, but nothing lost reads changes, so every tick until the pump drains it repeats the 5 s reopen() under the App lock and restamps the message. Then resume_or_finish restages the suspended context onto the same LocalPlayer when it is Arc::ptr_eq to the slot's (a suspended Local context shares it): live_player() refuses, play_file bails, fail_index marks the resume index failed, and a one-track context ends with "no playable tracks left", a device error reported as an unplayable library. Latch the failure so the reopen runs once, and have the teardown either reopen the shared player or surface a device error on the restage instead of poisoning the track.

Comment thread src/core/driver/mod.rs
let reopened = $app
.$playback
.as_ref()
.is_some_and(|s| s.player.reopen().is_ok());

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Keeping the reopen on the tick was my call and 5 s is fine as a backstop. The part that is not fine is that a timeout ends the session with no retry. A Bluetooth output on macOS can take 1 to 5 s to negotiate after AirPods go back in the case, so a timeout here is a device that would have opened a second later, and the flag that would trigger another attempt died with $playback. On timeout keep the session, and retry on a later tick with a bounded attempt count.

Comment thread src/infra/audio/player.rs
///
/// Two ways to fail (see module docs): the device was removed and cpal told
/// us, or the OS quietly moved its default output elsewhere and nobody did.
pub fn device_lost(&self) -> bool {

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This holds the sink mutex across a full default_host().default_output_device() plus description() round trip, and Driver::tick calls it for every live session on every tick, which is 16 ms on the Home screen with the banner gradient on. That is roughly 60 WASAPI enumerator and property-store reads a second (CoreAudio also enumerates every supported input and output config), on the UI thread, under the App lock, while position() / is_paused() / is_finished() on the render path wait on the same mutex. Throttle the name compare to once a second, and release the sink lock before the cpal query.

Comment thread src/infra/audio/player.rs
/// lock (see `stop_detached`).
/// lock (see `stop_detached`). A no-op once the device is gone.
#[cfg(any(feature = "internet-radio", feature = "qobuz"))]
pub fn play_prepared(&self, stream: PreparedStream) {

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play_prepared did not get the post-clear Arc::ptr_eq(&sink, &self.player()) re-check that play_file got. bounded(clear) returns promptly (the identity check is only on the poll), so a stream prepared across a concurrent reopen() is appended to the discarded sink and play() is called on it. The fresh sink reports device_lost() == false, so recovery never fires again: the track shows as playing and the position never advances. For radio that is forever, since radio never polls is_finished.

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Some radio stations freeze the app instead of failing to play Losing the audio output device freezes the app (all decoded sources)

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