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While Local Files, Subsonic, Internet Radio, YouTube or Qobuz played, the paused Spotify session could still act. A reconnect restored the old Spotify track over the source, the load watchdog rebuilt the player, a late end-of-track event skipped the audible track, the shuffle session moved or reloaded at the other source's position, and a transfer to an external device started a second player. This PR makes every native path ask who owns the sink. It changes no lifecycle: librespot is still only paused, never shut down.

What changed:

  1. Every hand-over of the sink away from librespot goes through App::pause_native_playback, which also clears the native play intent. A rebuild under another owner now comes back idle. The two paths that load librespot again (play_queued_spotify, the shuffled queue resume) re-arm the intent, because the stall watchdog disarms on a false intent.
  2. A queued track from another source claims the sink for its download and drops a Spotify queue slot that it skips. The queue releases the claim only where no decoded context resumes, because only a source start sets the claim and a resumed context must keep it for a later device loss.
  3. Two predicates, App::native_should_drive() and App::native_context_should_drive(), guard the recovery request, the parked start replay, both watchdogs, the end-of-track handler and its continuation, the restore, the idle device reconcile, the recovery routes and the stray-Playing guard, which knew only the queue before. The rebuild itself is never refused: every sender removes the player before it sends, so a refusal there loses the backend.
  4. The shuffle session ignores librespot events and refuses its lap reshuffle, its toggle reload and its queue resume under another owner. A context fetch that finishes there loads paused at position 0. The pagination walk stops when its session is gone or replaced.
  5. resume_or_finish takes the reason the queue ended. A lost output device resumes nothing. A decoded queue slot no longer preloads the next Spotify track. Shuffle is refused under a queue slot, like Repeat.
  6. A device transfer is refused under a decoded owner for every target, not only the native one, on every build. Action::TransferPlayback goes through the new App::transfer_playback_to_device.

Deliberate behaviour changes a user can see:

  1. A source start drops a parked Spotify start and disarms the load watchdog.
  2. The playbar shows Spotify as paused at once at every hand-over.
  3. A Playing event from librespot under another source (a remote Connect client that presses play on the spotatui device, for example) is paused again at once. Spotify takes the output back only through a start inside spotatui.
  4. A Spotify track after a track from another source in the queue starts with a cold load.
  5. A queue whose output device is gone for good stops. It does not restart the suspended Spotify context on the new default device.
  6. The device picker answers "Another source owns playback" at once under another source, also for an external device.
  7. After a native rebuild under another source, the rebuilt device is not auto-selected until that source ends.

Testing

All on Windows, on the final tree:

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check: exit 0
  • cargo clippy -- -D warnings on the default features and with --no-default-features --features for telemetry,tui / telemetry / telemetry,streaming / telemetry,tui,mcp-server / telemetry,tui,ai-dj / telemetry,tui,streaming,youtube / the five-sources release set (with audio-viz-cpal, PipeWire does not build on Windows): all Finished, exit 0
  • cargo test (default): test result: ok. 1415 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored
  • cargo test --no-default-features --features telemetry,tui: test result: ok. 1081 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored
  • cargo test --no-default-features --features telemetry: test result: ok. 704 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored
  • cargo test --no-default-features --features telemetry,tui,mcp-server: test result: ok. 1203 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored
  • cargo test --no-default-features --features telemetry,tui,ai-dj: test result: ok. 1357 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored
  • cargo test --no-default-features --features telemetry,tui,streaming,youtube: test result: ok. 1267 passed; 0 failed; 10 ignored
  • cargo test with the five-sources set: test result: FAILED. 1976 passed; 1 failed; 22 ignored. The one failure is infra::local::tests::uri_round_trip, which fails on every Windows run with sources (Url::to_file_path on a path with no drive letter) and is in a file this PR does not touch.
  • bash tools/check_gates_ratchet.sh HEAD: ok: tools/gates.count respects the ratchet. Only test_attribute_total moved (2004 to 2029).

25 new tests. Not covered by a test, because no test can construct a StreamingPlayer: the six source release sites, the queue branch of next_track, the two mid-track suspend branches, the stray-Playing guard, the two recovery-route arms, the stall escalation, the idle reconcile, the failed-load reset in play_queued_spotify and the pagination probe. They ship covered by inspection, and I do a live Spotify-plus-Qobuz pass before the merge.

Additional notes

Not run: the Linux all-sources test leg and the macOS job. CI runs both.

The change is larger than usual (+868/-208) because the release sites, the predicates and the queue claim share the same five dispatchers and only make sense together. More than half of the added lines are tests.

Follow-ups I know of, none of them new in this PR:

  • A sink claim with no session behind it (a queue that drains while a suspended radio station stays paused, a device loss on a player the queue shares with its context) stays until a Spotify start, as it does today. With the new guards it also refuses the device picker until then.
  • The macOS and Windows media-key Play/Pause arms never write the play intent, unlike their MPRIS twins.
  • A transfer to an external device under a Spotify queue slot is allowed (one librespot stream moves), and the native queue stalls afterwards because its only advance trigger is our own end-of-track event.
  • The MPRIS SetShuffle and SetLoopStatus fallbacks persist their state before they dispatch.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Spotify now stays paused while another source—such as YouTube, Qobuz, radio, or local files—is playing.
    • Prevented unexpected Spotify recovery, track skipping, shuffle-position changes, and background playback during source handoffs.
    • Queued playback now correctly takes control of the output and stops when its device is unavailable.
    • Playback transfers to another device are refused while another source owns the output, with a clear status message.
    • Fixed native playback recovery and cached-context restoration from overriding active non-Spotify playback.

Every hand-over of the sink away from librespot now pauses it and clears
the native play intent, so a backend rebuild under another source comes
back idle. A queued track from another source claims the sink for its
download. Two owner predicates guard the native recovery, restore,
watchdog, end-of-track, shuffle-session and device-transfer paths, and a
queue whose output device is gone stops without a Spotify resume.
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The change centralizes playback ownership checks. Decoded sources claim the local sink, native Spotify paths stop when ownership changes, queue completion distinguishes device loss, and playback transfer is refused while another source owns playback.

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Playback ownership enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ownership predicates and test state
.github/copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, src/core/app/...
Playback owners now report local-sink ownership. native_should_drive() and native_context_should_drive() distinguish decoded and queue ownership. Test builds include decoded sink claims.
Decoded queue sink handoff
src/core/app/queue.rs, src/core/app/queue_suspend.rs, src/core/app/transport.rs, src/infra/queue/..., src/infra/{local,qobuz,radio,subsonic,youtube}/dispatch.rs
Decoded queue playback claims the sink and pauses native playback through pause_native_playback(). Queue completion releases the claim. Device loss stops without resuming the suspended Spotify context.
Native recovery and context guards
src/core/app/native_backend.rs, src/core/app/native_shuffle.rs, src/core/app/tick.rs, src/infra/network/native_shuffle.rs, src/infra/network/playback.rs, src/infra/player/events.rs
Native recovery, watchdog, restore, continuation, shuffle, and player-event paths now check ownership predicates. Shuffle pagination abandons stale session generations.
Playback transfer validation and source handoffs
src/core/action/apply.rs, src/core/action/tests.rs, src/core/app/transport.rs, src/tui/handlers/..., src/infra/{local,qobuz,radio,subsonic,youtube}/dispatch.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Playback transfer uses an app method that refuses decoded ownership. Other source starts use shared native pause logic. TUI tests cover the refusal and status message. The changelog records the ownership behavior.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OtherSource
  participant QueueDispatch
  participant App
  participant SpotifyBackend
  OtherSource->>QueueDispatch: start decoded playback
  QueueDispatch->>App: claim decoded sink
  App->>SpotifyBackend: pause_native_playback
  SpotifyBackend-->>App: native playback intent cleared
  QueueDispatch->>App: release claim on drain or context resume
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🟠 Major · Release the decoded sink claim before returning from the shared-player… · dispatch.rs:807-812

src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs:807-812
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Release the decoded sink claim before returning from the shared-player device-loss branch.

When drop_context_sharing returns true, this branch returns before the later QueueEnd::DeviceLost cleanup. drop_context_sharing removes the suspended playback state but does not release decoded_sink_claim. The stale claim can keep decoded playback active and block native transport control.

🐛 Proposed fix
   #[cfg(feature = "audio-decode-queue")]
   if let Some(dead) = queue_player.as_ref().filter(|p| p.device_lost()) {
     let mut guard = app.lock().await;
     if drop_context_sharing(&mut guard, suspended.as_ref(), dead) {
+      guard.release_decoded_sink_claim();
       guard.set_status_message("Audio output device disconnected.".to_string(), 8);
       return;
     }
   }
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In `@src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs` around lines 807 - 812, In the shared-player
device-loss branch, update the true path of drop_context_sharing to release the
decoded sink claim via the existing app guard before setting the status message
and returning. Preserve the current cleanup and return behavior for other paths.
🟡 Minor · Clear the Spotify queue slot during external transfer. · playback.rs:2437-2453

src/infra/network/playback.rs:2437-2453
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Clear the Spotify queue slot during external transfer.

The external transfer success branch calls clear_native_playback_recovery(), which does not clear queue_now. A direct CLI transfer reaches this branch through handle_network_event. If a Spotify queue slot is published, the slot can remain the playback owner after playback moves to the external device, leaving stale UI and transport routing.

Use clear_native_recovery_intent_for_external_playback in this branch, while preserving native_playback_origin = None. Add a regression test for a Spotify queue slot.

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In `@src/infra/network/playback.rs` around lines 2437 - 2453, In the external
transfer success branch of handle_network_event, replace
clear_native_playback_recovery() with
clear_native_recovery_intent_for_external_playback() while preserving
native_playback_origin = None. Add a regression test covering a published
Spotify queue slot and confirming it is cleared after transfer.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/infra/network/native_shuffle.rs`:
- Around line 390-681: The native shuffle load paths need an ownership check
immediately before loading or re-arming playback. In
build_shuffle_session_from_current’s album branch, revalidate
native_context_should_drive after the async fetch and before
load_session_tracks; abort without loading if ownership changed. In
resume_native_shuffle_session, revalidate ownership before
set_native_playback_intent and the subsequent native load, and avoid re-arming
intent when the check fails. Add coverage for ownership changes during both
async gaps.
- Around line 397-401: Reorder the conditions in the native shuffle handler so
the !drive check returns Action::Nothing before the incomplete-fetch branch can
assign session.shuffled. Preserve the existing update for driven sessions, and
add coverage for fetch_complete == false with native_context_should_drive() ==
false to verify the session remains unchanged.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/infra/network/playback.rs`:
- Around line 2437-2453: In the external transfer success branch of
handle_network_event, replace clear_native_playback_recovery() with
clear_native_recovery_intent_for_external_playback() while preserving
native_playback_origin = None. Add a regression test covering a published
Spotify queue slot and confirming it is cleared after transfer.

In `@src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs`:
- Around line 807-812: In the shared-player device-loss branch, update the true
path of drop_context_sharing to release the decoded sink claim via the existing
app guard before setting the status message and returning. Preserve the current
cleanup and return behavior for other paths.

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Comment thread src/infra/network/native_shuffle.rs Outdated
Comment thread src/infra/network/native_shuffle.rs
The play intent is now set in the same App lock as the owner check, so
no gap sits between the check and the load. A test pins that a shuffle
toggle during the context fetch is recorded under another owner.
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@coderabbitai On the two comments outside the diff:

  1. src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs, the shared-player device loss: keeping the claim there is the documented rule from fix(playback): claim the sink before a source starts #522 (CLAUDE.md, "Playback ownership": the owner stays Decoded "through a failed start or a lost output device" until a Spotify start). I was on a decoded source in that case, so Space must not resume the paused librespot on the device I just left. The driver's own Reopen::GaveUp arm for a plain decoded context keeps the claim the same way, and a release at only one of the two sites would make them disagree. The PR body lists this as a known follow-up.
  2. src/infra/network/playback.rs, the external transfer under a Spotify queue slot: the one-line swap clears queue_now but leaves queue_suspended set, and the stray-playback guard then pauses every librespot Playing event after a transfer back, until an explicit start. Ending the queue episode on an external hand-off needs its own change. It is in the follow-up list of the PR body too.

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ast-grep outline src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs --items all --view expanded
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printf '\n--- ownership documentation references ---\n'
rg -n -C 5 'Playback ownership|lost output device|Reopen::GaveUp|queue_suspended|queue_now|pause_native_playback|native_context_should_drive' CLAUDE.md src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs src/infra/network/playback.rs src/infra/player/events.rs src/core/app/playback_routing.rs

printf '\n--- queue device-loss call sites ---\n'
rg -n -C 6 'QueueEnd::DeviceLost|DeviceLost|resume_or_finish|release_decoded_sink_claim' src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs src/infra/queue/mod.rs

printf '\n--- player gave-up and playing event paths ---\n'
rg -n -C 10 'Reopen::GaveUp|Playing' src/infra/player/events.rs

printf '\n--- playback transfer state paths ---\n'
rg -n -C 10 'Transfer|transfer|queue_now|queue_suspended|native_context_should_drive' src/infra/network/playback.rs

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printf '%s\n' '--- CLAUDE playback ownership ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- device-loss tests ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- decoded owner calculation ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- stray Playing guard ---'
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@LargeModGames I verified both paths.

  1. The shared-player device-loss explanation does not match the current queue code or CLAUDE.md.

    Reopen::GaveUp for a plain decoded context removes the source session and retains its decoded sink claim. That behavior prevents librespot from resuming after the source output fails.

    The decoded queue path is different. resume_or_finish(..., QueueEnd::DeviceLost) calls release_decoded_sink_claim() before it returns. CLAUDE.md also states that a decoded queue releases the claim for “nothing suspended, a Spotify context, a lost device.” The test device_loss_releases_the_decoded_sink_claim asserts this behavior.

    Therefore, the two paths currently do not retain the claim in the same way. The queue-device-loss behavior needs either a code and test change to retain the claim, or the explanation and ownership documentation should describe the intentional distinction.

  2. The external-handoff explanation matches the current code.

    clear_native_recovery_intent_for_external_playback() clears queue_now for a Spotify queue slot. It does not clear queue_suspended. After that transition, the PlayerEvent::Playing guard sees !queue_now_is_spotify() && queue_suspended.is_some(), pauses librespot, and clears native playback intent. Playback remains paused until an explicit start.

    This is a real retained queue episode, not an unintended missing guard. It is suitable for the stated follow-up.


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Learning: In the Rust playback ownership model, plain decoded-context `Reopen::GaveUp` retains the decoded sink claim after removing the source session. In contrast, `src/infra/queue/dispatch.rs` releases the decoded sink claim when `resume_or_finish` handles `QueueEnd::DeviceLost`. `CLAUDE.md` documents this queue-specific distinction.

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