Issue starting internet radio via intent

Issue description:

I have a Tasker task that picks a radio station from a list and sends an intent to Symfonium to start playback. This has stopped working most of the time, but manually pressing Play, or manually selecting the radio in Symfonium, always works. Then, after I open Symfonium, the intent works again until some time passes. It broke some time in April or May, but I’m not exactly sure when as this is hard to troubleshoot and I usually only use the task while getting in the car.

Pixel 8, Android 15, current security patch always. Symfonium is set to Allow Background Usage and battery usage is set to Unrestricted.

Symfonium 13.0.0a (127458)

The usual radios are from Soma FM, like https://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls, and the log says “Error/TranscoderManager: FFProbe [701ms]: No media information extracted: Invalid data found when processing input” (but they still work when manually started).

Neo FM https://streams.fluxfm.de/neofm/aac-64/radiode is also affected but that one says “Error/MusicPlayer: Unable to get audio focus. Skip play.”

Logs:

Upload description: forbiddenlake 2025 05 29

Additional information:

 

 

Reproduction steps:

 
Add a Tasker task that sends an intent to start an existing internet radio in Symfonium, test that it works
Play something else. Stop playback. Close Symfonium
Put the phone down, Wait ???
Pick the phone back up and without opening Symfonium, trigger the Tasker task
Nothing should start playing.
Open Symfonium, the active media should have changed to the requested internet radio, but not be playing.
Press Play and it plays.
 

Media provider:

Any provider

Screenshots:

 

    

Arf yes their dumb change for audio focus …

Will workaround in next release.

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