[GH-ISSUE #950] How to handle spotifyd restarting #415

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opened 2026-02-28 14:49:01 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @stevensonmt on GitHub (Feb 16, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui/issues/950

I have an issue when listening for longer periods that the spotifyd connection gets reset but because it happens silently systemd does not see it as a failure and does not restart the service. This leads to spotify-tui returning an error that no backend is running (I forget the actual text of the error). I'm trying to solve this by simply having spotifyd restart periodically via WatchdogSec=1200s. When the service restarts spotify-tui does not seem to reconnect automatically. Playback fails silently as the current track just pauses and keeps trying to play the next 3 seconds over and over until I manually select a track.

Is there a better way to handle the silent failure of spotifyd or a way to handle the spotifyd service restarting such that playback is either not interrupted or if interrupted restarts the current track automatically?

Originally created by @stevensonmt on GitHub (Feb 16, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui/issues/950 I have an issue when listening for longer periods that the spotifyd connection gets reset but because it happens silently systemd does not see it as a failure and does not restart the service. This leads to spotify-tui returning an error that no backend is running (I forget the actual text of the error). I'm trying to solve this by simply having spotifyd restart periodically via `WatchdogSec=1200s`. When the service restarts spotify-tui does not seem to reconnect automatically. Playback fails silently as the current track just pauses and keeps trying to play the next 3 seconds over and over until I manually select a track. Is there a better way to handle the silent failure of spotifyd or a way to handle the spotifyd service restarting such that playback is either not interrupted or if interrupted restarts the current track automatically?