Playback error when not using local decoder

App version

Production

Issue description

Hi, I am having an issue when trying to play songs in sequence with the local renderer disabled.

What happened:
When the local encoder is disabled and trying to play songs in sequence from an album (any album, in mp3 format), the player throws an error when reproducing the next song in the sequence.
The player gets stuck between 1-10 seconds and then reports “Error playing media, ensure that your player supports it”.
The issue does not occur when pressing the “Next track” button, only when the player reaches the end of a song and tries to play the next one.

What I expected to happen:
The songs should play and progress regularly through the entire album.

Player involved:
Symfonium Android app, latest version, on a Google Pixel 9.
The player works fine with the local renderer disabled on the other android device in my possession (Xiaomi POCO F5).

Device type

Phone

Media provider

Navidrome

Steps to reproduce

  1. Go to Settings and disable “Prefer internal decoder”
  2. Tap any song in an album to start playback for the whole album
  3. Either wait for the song to finish entirely, or skip to the last 10 seconds
  4. When the next song starts, the error occurs

Additional information

I was having issues with gapless playbacks, experiencing clicks and a tiny but annoying delay between tracks. I turned off the internal encoder to try and solve this, but it does not work on my Pixel 9. Note that on my POCO F5 the issue does not present, and disabling the internal renderer does fix gapless playback for my setup. The issue is only on my Pixel 9 as far as I can gather.

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quelluomo0509

You also enabled offload, try without that. Both those options makes everything handled by the OS not the app so not much I can do.

If you have gapless issue properly report that.

Thank you so much, that fixed it! Didn’t even realize it was enabled. Love this app and I’m glad I could keep using it. Thanks again!

Would still be better to report the gapless issue :wink: