Floby / node-libspotify

Node bindings for the libspotify C library
projects.flo.by/node-libspotify/
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'track-end' event sent early #47

Open ghost opened 9 years ago

ghost commented 9 years ago

Hi @Floby - awesome work on this project, it's perfect for what I'm doing. I know you haven't touched this in a long while, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts on what might cause the track-end event to be sent early, before the track has played all the way through. From how I understand it, this comes directly from sp_session_callbacks::end_of_track in libspotify. I suppose there could be a bug in libspotify, but it happens probably around a third of the time in my experience.

IainCole commented 9 years ago

This can happen if you are consuming the audio data from the stream faster than you should be.. Do you have any example code where this is happening?

ghost commented 9 years ago

@IainCole Here's a gist of what I'm doing. I'm piping this out to a response. https://gist.github.com/sciencepro/4481545fe5099b363ef3

IainCole commented 9 years ago

So you are returning audio data to some web app then playing it? I think what's happening is the audio data is being returned to the app effectively as fast as it can encode/download, so you're getting the track-end message when it's finished being downloaded rather than being played.

ghost commented 9 years ago

Ah, that makes sense. That's what I'm trying to do. Any suggestions on how I can control this better? Thanks for your help.

IainCole commented 9 years ago

Depends how you're playing it and what you're using the track-end message for. I think it would have to be handled in the app, perhaps by buffering the audio data and checking when it's empty or something.