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Gapless-prefetched track is re-loaded ~13s after it starts, restarting it from the beginning #315

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Summary: During normal playlist playback, a track that was gaplessly started from a prefetch is occasionally re-loaded fresh ~10-15s in, restarting it from 0. Intermittent, roughly 1 in 10 tracks. No user skip, no client reconnect.

Setup: go-librespot dev build, audio_backend: pipe, audio_output_pipe_passthrough: true, audio_output_pipe_format: s16le, external_volume: true, volume_steps: 100, credentials.type: zeroconf. Linux ARMv7. The Ogg pipe is consumed by a custom app; the consumer stays attached throughout (no reconnect during the event).

Log (track names are public Spotify tracks, account masked):

20:07:38  prefetched track "Under the Bridge"
20:08:32  (stream) new logical Ogg stream / track boundary for this track
20:08:45  loaded track "Under the Bridge" (paused: false, position: 21ms, prefetched: false)

The second loaded ... prefetched:false for the same track ~13s after it already started is the restart: the player discards the in-flight prefetched track and loads it again from the beginning.

Questions:

  • What can trigger a fresh load of the already-playing prefetched track mid-playback (no skip, no client state change from our side)?
  • Is this a known gapless/prefetch state-sync issue?
  • Is there a config option to disable prefetch/gapless as a workaround?

Happy to add trace-level logs or test patches.

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