Sometimes the download hangs

[Bird23]

Once in a while a song doesn't complete the download and the download stays at a certain point.
I had it with a song from Sting, R Kelly and Queen.
The Queen song is spotify:track:1lCRw5FEZ1gPDNPzy1K4zW.
Doe you have any idea what this could be?

Otherwise the program is top.

[meydominic]

Hi,
is it only with this song? Are you able to download it with you spotify app on mobile device or spotify-application on pc?

[Bird23]

I can download the songs ok to my phone for offline listening. It's not only the queen song, but another one from Sting - Desert rose : spotify:track:0QFqIyJJ5BdOHyKBVW90I6.
It always stops at the same position.

[meydominic]

Okay,
I will try and look into this and will report back ;)

Edit:

I could reproduce it. I will look into code will look if I can do sth.

[dmakhkamov]

Hi guys, is there any update with this issue? i face it as well? cant figure out why it happens from the code. any idea?

[dmakhkamov]

I've narrowed it down to the point that session.PlayerLoad(track) is having an error. still looking for help

[dmakhkamov]

Guys, the issue is that by default Downtify tries to stream the track in 320kbps, however some of the tracks seem not to be available in that quality. I tested for the same track, adding the following line before loading, and it seems to prove the point

in SpotifyDownloader.cs :

this does not work and hangs as before

session.PreferredBitrate(BitRate._320k);
session.PlayerLoad(track);
session.PlayerPlay(true);

and the following seem to work like a charm

session.PreferredBitrate(BitRate._160k); //<- solution
session.PlayerLoad(track);
session.PlayerPlay(true);

The only problem now is to figure out how to dynamically set the bitrate to 160 if 320 does not work.