Slow song loading times

Issue description:

Lately it takes a very long time to load newly added .flac files.

Im running through wireguard to access home lan.

I cannot see any obvious issues with wireguard conf.

Logs:

Upload description: thekingpin

Additional information:

It seems that symfonium is trying to connect via https when it should be http in my scenario. Not sure if this is an intended step.

Reproduction steps:

Media provider:

Subsonic

Screenshots:

ffprobe takes 11 seconds per file then it’s cached for future usage.

You can disable the transcoding engine in the settings to skip that part.

Unfortunately it’s still happening even after turning it off.

Kindly check the newly uploaded logs.

The first song plays after couple of seconds, but, the 2nd and 3rd take really long to buffer.

Side note: Ive also just beforehand unistalled and reinstalled from backup.

Well yes it just remove a step but can’t make your connection faster.

2025-09-05 18:52:04.235 Verbose ImageCacheManager  Downloaded (56.7 kB/1110ms): ImageRequest(imagePath=ImagePath(file=null, url=http://192.168.1.106:30043/share/img/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImFyLTBTdFBYRWVUeGtWUHVyWUZwUm9tRGNfMCIsImlzcyI6Ik5EIn0.UUioNR57bJdG1DPnK2gS4A5hZncHRD8R36Mpm3X1Cak?size=1200&u=REDACTED&t=REDACTED&s=REDACTED&v=1.13.0&c=Symfonium&f=json, shouldCache=true, providerId=null, headers=[]), cachedOnly=false, keepTransparency=false, exactSize=null, size=null, crossFade=false, debugTag=autoOfflineArtistThumb, sourceOnline=true)
2025-09-05 18:51:28.634 Verbose ImageCacheManager  Downloaded (9.0 kB/3647ms): ImageRequest(imagePath=ImagePath(file=null, url=http://192.168.1.106:30043/share/img/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImFyLTBTS3ZYOXJCR01sR3hTWEJTM1V1NnZfMCIsImlzcyI6Ik5EIn0.DyhPoWXn7rBZTVj9W5kVBaU78Wi81h_jgDgvtBxvDkQ?size=1200&u=REDACTED&t=REDACTED&s=REDACTED&v=1.13.0&c=Symfonium&f=json, shouldCache=true, providerId=null, headers=[]), cachedOnly=false, keepTransparency=false, exactSize=null, size=null, crossFade=false, debugTag=autoOfflineArtistThumb, sourceOnline=true)

I mean it takes 1.1 second to download a 56Kb image how do you want large flacs to load faster at those speeds.

Edit: Even better 9.0 kB/3647ms

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:joy: That would explain it yes.

But why only with Navidrome endpoint? Otherwise my VPN is fine. Has something changed in the API? I suddenly just had this issue without changing anything on my setup. Also my network is fine I have done mtr scans etc….

I have no way to know, Symfonium just call download http content at that the max speed it can. The rest happens outside.

Thanks anywyas. I fixed the issue it seems by enabling transcoding to lower the Bitrate. Higher bit rate songs seem to cause the hiccups.

I would love to be able to set a higher mobile Bitrate than 320kpbs. Is there reason this is the maxium instead of having more granular control?

Because it makes absolutely no sense ?

Opus over 128k is already transparent, more than 320 would only make sense for 9.1 channels but then makes no sense on a phone :wink:

Big numbers does not make things better.

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Ah yes the law of diminishing returns :grinning_face:

At least with transcoding on everything is working super snappy now I must say.