#212 6.1.1 Web player in Linux (FF/Chrome) doesn't advance to the next track

[Anonymous]

I recently updated to 6.1.1, and now when I'm playing back an album on my Linux desktops (one Arch, one Mint), the player doesn't advance to the next track about 50% of the time. The play button turns into a buffering icon and playback stops. If I maunally switch over to the next track via the forward button, it plays instantly.

This deosn't seem to happen on macOS/FF. I've cleared all caches in all browsers.

[Anonymous]

Based on what I've seen from Sindre and other users, it seems like WMA and FLAC files have issues transcoding where the duration gets borked in some way. The HTML 5 player gets confused and doesn't know what to do when it gets to the end of the song because it expects there to be more to play even though there isn't, so it gets stuck. Pressing next track fixes this but is hardly a solution. I'm opting to convert all of my wma files (half my media library) to mp3 so I don't have to deal with this issue anymore. I suspect this is mainly an issue with ffmpeg and/or the HTML 5 web player which Sindre really has little to no control over.

[Anonymous]

There could be a JS in the web player that detects that playback is stuck very close to the end and that would press the "next" button.

[Anonymous]

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