Spotifyd sink is never corked

[Zeioth]

Description Spotifyd sink in never corked, even if no audio is playing. This prevents audio based idle monitoring from working.

To Reproduce

1. run spotifyd
2. run 'pactl list sink-inputs'
3. Look for 'Corked' and make sure it's value is true when nothing is reproducing.

Expected behavior When no audio is reproducing, corked shows true.

Logs

Sink Input #52
    Driver: PipeWire
    Owner Module: n/a
    Client: 51
    Sink: 63
    Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 44100Hz
    Channel Map: front-left,front-right
    Format: pcm, format.sample_format = "\"float32le\""  format.rate = "44100"  format.channels = "2"  format.channel_map = "\"front-left,front-right\""
    Corked: no
    Mute: no
    Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB,   front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
           balance 0,00
    Buffer Latency: 0 usec
    Sink Latency: 0 usec
    Resample method: PipeWire
    Properties:
        client.api = "alsa"
        application.name = "spotifyd"
        node.latency = "220/44100"
        node.rate = "1/44100"
        node.target = "-1"
        media.type = "Audio"
        media.category = "Playback"
        media.name = "ALSA Playback"
        stream.is-live = "true"
        node.name = "PipeWire ALSA [spotifyd]"
        node.autoconnect = "true"
        media.class = "Stream/Output/Audio"
        adapt.follower.node = ""
        object.register = "false"
        factory.id = "8"
        audio.adapt.follower = ""
        factory.mode = "split"
        library.name = "audioconvert/libspa-audioconvert"
        client.id = "51"
        object.id = "52"
        module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-name:spotifyd"

Installed from: manjaro official repositories

Versions (please complete the following information):

• OS: Manjaro-sway
• Spotifyd: 0.3.2

[Zeioth]

Temporal workaround I wrote a service that kills spotifyd when spotify-tui (or the app your choose) is not running.

~/.local/share/systemd/spotifyd-autokill.service

[Unit]
Description=spotifyd auto-killer (when spotify-tui is not running)

[Service]
# Full path here is required
ExecStart="/home/zeioth/.local/share/systemd/user/daemons/spotifyd-autokill.sh"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

~/.local/share/systemd/user/daemons/spotifyd-autokill.sh

#!/bin/bash
while true; do

  if `ps -ef | grep "alacritty --title spotify-tui" | awk {'print $2" "$8'} | grep -v grep > /dev/null`; then
    echo "Spotify-tui is running: No actions taken."
  else
    echo "Spotify-tui is not running: Closing spotifyd."
    killall -9 "spotifyd" 2> /dev/null
  fi
  sleep 120

done

~/.local/bin/spotify-tui

spotifyd
alacritty --title 'spotify-tui' --config-file ~/.config/alacritty/monokai.yml -e zsh -c 'source ~/.zshrc && cd ~/workspaces/git-forks/spotify-tui && cargo run' &

This of course implies that the bug is still present, and the computer won't go into sleep mode while spotify-tui is open, even if the audio is stopped.

[Zeioth]

Tested with 0.3.3 and still happens.

[feekApp]

On my Macbook (MacOs 12.4) when spotifyd is running and I close my lid, after sleep my hostname changed! FeekApp.local becomes FeekApp-1.local .

[eladyn]

@Zeioth From what I can see, this is (more or less) working on my system, at least when I use either the alsa or the pulseaudio backend.[^1] When I pause playback, spotifyd disappears from the pactl list sink-inputs output. After resuming it again, it reappears there. Although it does not set any corked attribute that you described above, I assume that this would also work for you?

What spotifyd audio backend are you using, and what audio server?

[^1]: I'm using PipeWire (0.3.51) as my audio server.

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@feekApp Is your issue related to the one described here, or would it be better suited for a new issue? Apart from that, how does a changed hostname influence spotifyds ability to play music?

[feekApp]

@eladyn I'am using portaudio as is recommended in the wiki config file for macOS. Can I better try pulseaudio?
On Changing host-name, spotifyd seems still playing, but no sound on my Mac. Need to restart brew services for spotifyd.

[eladyn]

@feekApp Unfortunately, I have no MacBook to test this myself, but it seems like you're rather describing something like this? (Correct me, if I'm wrong.)

As for portaudio vs. pulseaudio: There is probably a reason, why the brew formula only packages portaudio by default. Thus, I doubt that my findings above would also help you on macOS.

[feekApp]

@eladyn indeed seems similar.