Tracks skipping without playing

[arch-btw]

Describe the bug
Tracks are skipping without playing

To Reproduce
When I play a track that isn't cached then it won't play

Expected behaviour
For it to play music

Log and backtrace

2025-11-06T1606:59.417381Z ERROR librespot_playback::player: Track should be available, but no alternatives found.
2025-11-06T1606:59.417425Z  WARN librespot_playback::player: <spotify:track:*********************> is not available
2025-11-06T1606:59.417507Z ERROR librespot_playback::player: Skipping to next track, unable to load track <SpotifyId("spotify:track:*********************")>: ()
2025-11-06T1606:59.422406Z ERROR librespot_playback::player: Track should be available, but no alternatives found.
2025-11-06T1606:59.422435Z  WARN librespot_playback::player: <spotify:track:*********************> is not available
2025-11-06T1606:59.834362Z  INFO client_request{request=Player(StartPlayback(Context(Playlist(PlaylistId("*********************")), Some(Uri("spotify:track:*********************"))), None))}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 1453ms
2025-11-06T1607:00.087064Z  INFO client_request{request=GetCurrentUserQueue}: spotify_player::client: Successfully handled the client request, took: 358ms
2025-11-06T1607:00.122521Z ERROR librespot_playback::player: Track should be available, but no alternatives found.
2025-11-06T1607:00.122562Z  WARN librespot_playback::player: <spotify:track:*********************> is not available
2025-11-06T1607:00.122609Z ERROR librespot_playback::player: Skipping to next track, unable to load track <SpotifyId("spotify:track:*********************")>: ()
2025-11-06T1607:00.726131Z  INFO spotify_player::client: Retrieving image from url: https://i.scdn.co/image/*********************
2025-11-06T1607:00.802793Z ERROR librespot_playback::player: Track should be available, but no alternatives found.
2025-11-06T1607:00.802842Z  WARN librespot_playback::player: <spotify:track:*********************> is not available
2025-11-06T1607:00.802919Z ERROR librespot_playback::player: Skipping to next track, unable to load track <SpotifyId("spotify:track:*********************")>: ()

Environment

• OS: Arch Linux
• Application version: Latest 0.21.1-1

Additional context

Apologies if it's just my setup, everything was playing fine yesterday though.

[kubiokyay135]

Hello there good sir,

I actually experienced this bug a few days ago and found a work-around. From my understanding this isn't an issue with spotify-player, but instead is a bug in librespot which affects a lot of custom spotify apps. Originally ran into this with Music Assistant linked to Home Assistant earlier this year.

To fix (as a workaround), edit your hosts file on your computer and add "0.0.0.0 apresolve.spotify.com" to block the domain. This forces spotify to use an alternate cdn backend that still works properly.

[Mega2223]

Apologies if it's just my setup, everything was playing fine yesterday though.

Fellow Arch User here having the exact same problem, and everything was fine yesterday too. Did you by any chance make a system update recently?

[kubiokyay135]

I apologize, I guess I spoke too soon. When I first installed the app a few days ago I was getting this issue, and fixed it with the hosts file change I mentioned above. However, as of this morning it looks like that isn't working either and I'm now experiencing this bug again. Checked my logs and I'm getting the exact same errors you're getting.

Something had to have changed on Spotify's end. No changes were made on my system between yesterday and this morning, and it was working about 10hrs ago.

[arch-btw]

@kubiokyay135 no problem at all 👍 , and thank you for the fast reply! Unfortunately, it didn't work for me either, but I do recall that being a fix earlier this year indeed.

@Mega2223 good catch! I did do a full update earlier today. Maybe something broke along those lines.

[lucasadelino]

Also broken for me after running a system update on Arch

[afxfinn]

Hi, same issue arising on my end as well, also running Arch + latest version of this, but did not do a system update recently.

Stopped working about 4 hours before posting this comment, worked fine earlier today.

[Simplicitie]

Happens on MacOS too.. I was using it this morning.. paused to join a short meeting and it was broken by the time I got back. Same errors in the log file.

[trentcowden]

Happening for me on MacOS as well! I can't play anything.

[OneTrueJASH]

librespot-org/librespot#1622

[aome510]

hi folks, just chime in this thread cause I haven't touched the project for a while. Can someone ping me once librespot releases new version with the fix so that I publish a new release?

[OneTrueJASH]

librespot-org/librespot#1622

I've tested locally with the proposed librespot fix and can confirm it resolves the playback issue.

To get spotify-player working with PR #1622, I had to make a couple of code changes to accommodate the new librespot API. One of the commits since the last librespot release refactors how Spotify URIs are handled, replacing SpotifyId with a new SpotifyUri enum.

Changes required:

1. spotify_player/src/streaming.rs - Updated spotify_id_to_playable_id() function:

• Changed parameter from spotify_id::SpotifyId to SpotifyUri
• Replaced match id.item_type with pattern matching on SpotifyUri enum variants (SpotifyUri::Track { .. }, SpotifyUri::Episode { .. })

2. spotify_player/src/client/mod.rs - Updated lyrics() method:

• Changed from SpotifyId::from_uri() to SpotifyUri::from_uri()
• Added pattern matching to extract the SpotifyId from the SpotifyUri::Track { id } variant

With these changes, spotify-player builds successfully and can now play tracks without the "Track should be available, but no alternatives found" errors.

Once librespot PR #1622 is merged, spotify-player will need to adopt these API changes to remain compatible with the fix.

[aome510]

Once librespot PR #1622 is merged, spotify-player will need to adopt these API changes to remain compatible with the fix.

Thanks @OneTrueJASH for looking into this! If possible, once librespot releases a new version, can you put up a PR here as well?

[OneTrueJASH]

@aome510 for sure. Glad to help out. I'll let you know when the PR is ready for review.