# Playback of cached music briefly pauses when network state changes

**URL:** <http://support.symfonium.app/t/playback-of-cached-music-briefly-pauses-when-network-state-changes/14746>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** handled\
**Created:** [August 18, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/playback-of-cached-music-briefly-pauses-when-network-state-changes/14746 "2026-08-18T18:25:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![spartanhooah](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@spartanhooah](http://support.symfonium.app/u/spartanhooah)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/playback-of-cached-music-briefly-pauses-when-network-state-changes/14746/1 "2026-08-18T18:25:46Z")

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### App version

Production

### Issue description

My work has a guest wifi network that doesn’t get along well with my phone, causing frequent switching back and forth between wifi and cell data. I’ve downloaded a lot of my music from my server to avoid racking up data charges, but when I’m playing this music and the network flaps, the playback stops for maybe a half a second. I would not expect the network state changing to affect playback of cached files.

This is happening on a Pixel 9a.

### Device type

Phone

### Media provider

Jellyfin

### Steps to reproduce

1. Download some music to my phone.
2. Play downloaded music at work.
3. Work guest network kicks my phone off (or reconnects).
4. Momentary pause on playback.

### I searched existing issues first

on

### I understand that logs are mandatory

on

### Log upload name / description

hooah-playback-hitch

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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:** [August 19, 2026, 9:41am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/playback-of-cached-music-briefly-pauses-when-network-state-changes/14746/2 "2026-08-19T09:41:39Z")

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You have enabled the option for that (Force instant transcoding) that always instantly restart playback on network change.

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**Author:** ![spartanhooah](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@spartanhooah](http://support.symfonium.app/u/spartanhooah)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 10:21am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/playback-of-cached-music-briefly-pauses-when-network-state-changes/14746/3 "2026-08-19T10:21:17Z")

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So it’s transcoding local files? Is there a way to have it not do that?

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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:** [August 19, 2026, 10:32am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/playback-of-cached-music-briefly-pauses-when-network-state-changes/14746/4 "2026-08-19T10:32:12Z")

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It is not but the renderer can’t know exactly so do not enable the option if you do not want a restart.

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**Author:** ![system](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/system/32/726_2.png) [@system](http://support.symfonium.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 10:32am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/playback-of-cached-music-briefly-pauses-when-network-state-changes/14746/5 "2026-08-21T10:32:34Z")

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