# Lyrics sometimes not available

**URL:** <http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** fixed\
**Created:** [May 29, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394 "2024-05-29T19:24:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/1 "2024-05-29T19:24:35Z")

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## Issue description:

Sometimes a song has no lyrics even though they are embedded in the file. When I go back and forth one song the lyrics are shown again even when a connection to the server is not possible so the file was correctly cached.

## Logs:

Upload description: vrddjup5

## Additional information:

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After activating debug mode I didn’t restart the app because that fixed the problem for a couple hours the last time I tried.  
If the current logs are not helpful please let me know and I’ll leave debug mode on until it happens again.  
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## Reproduction steps:

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## Media provider:

Subsonic

## Screenshots:

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 10:56am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/2 "2024-05-31T10:56:15Z")

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There’s a million actions in the logs, can you clarify what happens when?

Or make a video that match associated logs.

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/3 "2024-05-31T13:12:51Z")

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That’s weird cause I only enabled logs for a few seconds. If I remember correctly I started playing the song (no lyrics available) and then went back and forth one song and then opened the lyrics.  
I’ll try to get new logs later.

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/4 "2024-05-31T13:56:22Z")

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I just uploaded new logs (upload description: j2jdnddkkdms)  
Here is a video:

> **[screen-20240531-155025.mp4 - Shared with pCloud](https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZhrXTZhVfB42GyEmk1JMbOrGS1CXNQKXVy)**
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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/5 "2024-05-31T14:56:01Z")

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How do you start the playback? Do you have some more details about how to repro ?

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/6 "2024-05-31T15:04:59Z")

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I started the queue via album screen a while ago and now I just start playback via notification or the player screen in the app.

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/7 "2024-05-31T15:06:52Z")

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When I use the skip buttons to get to the next song everything is normal but when I let it play to the end and the next song starts because of that the lyrics are missing

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/8 "2024-05-31T15:09:31Z")

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And it always happen? Or like it’s only the first song after a new playback session and possible a state restore ?

I have no idea how it’s possible since 10.1.5 so the more details about how to repro the best;

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/9 "2024-05-31T15:11:36Z")

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When it happens it happens to every song not just the first one.  
I’m not sure if it started with the newest version since I haven’t listened to a lot of music while reading the lyrics recently.

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/10 "2024-05-31T15:12:49Z")

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And do you have any idea if you do something special to trigger this ?

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/11 "2024-05-31T15:15:51Z")

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Sadly no.  
I just made another screen recording showing that it happens every time and for some reason two songs correctly show the lyrics for some reason😅  
Every song has lyrics.

> **[screen-20240531-171321.mp4 - Shared with pCloud](https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ7JVTZdoNTQDcMLU0o1j2vr4uQD7h1dR5X)**
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Edit: I also noticed that the lyrics button appears on the old song when it switches to the new song

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/12 "2024-05-31T15:19:24Z")

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I just uploaded new logs: wfh2rhbt2h2rh  
The first two songs show lyrics the three after that don’t

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/13 "2024-05-31T15:19:33Z")

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> [@vrddjup5](#):
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> Edit: I also noticed that the lyrics button appears on the old song when it switches to the new song

Yes on the last video I’ve just noticed that

 ![image](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/e/edd7dabc53809ea31fb8d7c4dba4c89cd4f8c4fc.jpeg)

Seems like there’s a strange race somewhere, maybe with random mode. Can you test without random for some time to see if it happens too ?

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/14 "2024-05-31T15:21:44Z")

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Still happens without random mode.  
Even after force closing the app

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/15 "2024-05-31T15:22:36Z")

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Ok so no idea will try to reproduce ☹

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/16 "2024-05-31T15:33:11Z")

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Maybe it’s a Pixel problem?  
I tried it on my Samsung Tab S7 and couldn’t reproduce it but maybe I just missed doing whatever causes it.

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/17 "2024-05-31T16:04:12Z")

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I have 2 pixels, but yes maybe something specific you do, or some settings or something that will be hard to figure if you don’t remember ☹

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/18 "2024-05-31T17:15:30Z")

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I just remembered that I enabled “Add playback cached media to offline rolling cache” (unless that’s on by default).  
I disabled it and emptied the rolling cache and now it seems to work fine. I’ll try more later but maybe that’s what causes it?

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/19 "2024-05-31T19:17:05Z")

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It’s happening again. I didn’t change anything and only listened while in the car.

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**Author:** ![vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@vrddjup5](http://support.symfonium.app/u/vrddjup5)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 9:51am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/lyrics-sometimes-not-available/4394/20 "2024-06-09T09:51:59Z")

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After updating to 10.1.5b it hasn’t happened again so I guess you can consider this fixed.

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