Spotify no longer appears to work

[scottwallacesh]

What version of Music Assistant has the issue?

2.7.0b10

How is the MA server installed?

Docker Container

Carefully read the Troubleshooting FAQ and confirm that

• I have examined the logs and tried to resolve this issue
• I have fixed any errors in the logs that relate to tags
• I am not running MA across a VPN, VLAN, subnet, behind a firewall, or using local SSL or have any other complex network setup
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• If using HA, I have confirmed the internal URL is set correctly
• I have tried a wired connection for issues related to interrupted or poor playback quality
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• I have reviewed the applicable player or music provider documentation
• For voice problems, I have sought help elsewhere before returning here
• For playback problems, I have recycled power to the physical device
• I have tried restarting MA and rebooting the host

Have you reviewed the Open and Closed Issues and Discussions to resolve this yourself?

• Yes

The problem

Spotify no longer seems to work.

2025-11-06 04:38:25.248 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Successfully logged in to Spotify as [REDACTED]
2025-11-06 04:38:25.436 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant] Loaded music provider Spotify
2025-11-06 04:42:59.324 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 1/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:42:59.325 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 25 seconds...
2025-11-06 04:43:24.378 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 2/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:43:24.378 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 1 seconds...
2025-11-06 04:43:25.447 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 1/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:43:25.447 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 29 seconds...
2025-11-06 04:43:54.545 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 2/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:43:54.545 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 1 seconds...
2025-11-06 04:43:55.572 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 3/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:43:55.572 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 29 seconds...
2025-11-06 04:44:26.480 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 1/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:44:26.480 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 28 seconds...
2025-11-06 04:44:54.533 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 2/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:44:54.533 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 1 seconds...
2025-11-06 04:44:55.558 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 3/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:44:55.558 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 29 seconds...
2025-11-06 04:45:33.003 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Attempt 1/5 failed: Spotify Rate Limiter
2025-11-06 04:45:33.003 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] Retrying in 21 seconds...

Using the same account on the same network, Spotify works flawlessly in noson and my mobile phone.

How to reproduce

Try to play music from Spotify via Music Assistant.

Music Providers

Spotify

Player Providers

Sonos S1

Full log output

music-assistant.log

Additional information

N/A

What version of Home Assistant Core (if used) are your running

N/A

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

On what type of hardware are you running?

Generic x86-64 (e.g. Intel NUC)

Have you included ALL of the information specified in the Troubleshooting FAQ or explained why you cannot

• Yes

[OzGav]

Have you tried rolling back? It’s working fine here with the add on . Looks like you are being rate limited for some reason which is outside of MA control

[Pierremenard]

I don't know if my problem is linked, but audio from tidal is problematica too (only in MA, with app or webapp it works just fine).
I see Tidal has put me also in throttling. I don't know if in latest MA release (I'm on latest container image, released a week ago) the number of request to providers increased too much and put us in rate limitation.

2025-11-06 11:03:16.507 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] _get_data was delayed for 1.735 secs due to throttling

2025-11-06 11:03:16.508 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: playlists/92c7037a-846f-4d91-96a7-5db9b57f354c/tracks

2025-11-06 11:03:18.508 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] _get_data was delayed for 0.497 secs due to throttling

2025-11-06 11:03:18.508 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: playlists/92c7037a-846f-4d91-96a7-5db9b57f354c/tracks

2025-11-06 11:03:20.509 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] _get_data was delayed for 0.299 secs due to throttling

2025-11-06 11:03:20.509 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: playlists/92c7037a-846f-4d91-96a7-5db9b57f354c/tracks

2025-11-06 11:03:22.509 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] _get_data was delayed for 0.565 secs due to throttling

2025-11-06 11:03:22.509 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: playlists/92c7037a-846f-4d91-96a7-5db9b57f354c/tracks

2025-11-06 11:03:24.510 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] _get_data was delayed for 0.344 secs due to throttling

2025-11-06 11:03:24.510 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: playlists/92c7037a-846f-4d91-96a7-5db9b57f354c/tracks

2025-11-06 11:03:26.510 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] _get_data was delayed for 0.280 secs due to throttling

2025-11-06 11:03:26.511 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: playlists/92c7037a-846f-4d91-96a7-5db9b57f354c/tracks

2025-11-06 11:03:28.511 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] _get_data was delayed for 1.780 secs due to throttling

2025-11-06 11:03:28.512 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: playlists/92c7037a-846f-4d91-96a7-5db9b57f354c/tracks

2025-11-06 11:03:28.876 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.music] Sync task for Tidal completed

2025-11-06 11:05:10.552 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: tracks/179067523

2025-11-06 11:05:10.743 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: tracks/179067523/lyrics

2025-11-06 11:05:10.783 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: tracks/179067523/playbackinfopostpaywall

2025-11-06 11:05:11.798 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: tracks/618396

2025-11-06 11:05:11.941 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: tracks/618396/lyrics

2025-11-06 11:05:12.083 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: tracks/618396/playbackinfopostpaywall

2025-11-06 11:06:44.543 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant.audio.media_stream] Error while streaming tidal://track/273659327: No audio was received

2025-11-06 11:06:44.543 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.audio.media_stream] Metadata:

encoder         : Lavf61.7.100

Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_f32le, 44100 Hz, stereo, flt, 2822 kb/s (default)

�

:

variant_bitrate : 1014754

id              : 0

encoder         : Lavc61.19.101 pcm_f32le

[out#0/f32le @ 0x7fff9b7cdaf0] video:0KiB audio:0KiB subtitle:0KiB other streams:0KiB global headers:0KiB muxing overhead: unknown

[out#0/f32le @ 0x7fff9b7cdaf0] Output file is empty, nothing was encoded(check -ss / -t / -frames parameters if used)

size=       0KiB time=N/A bitrate=N/A speed=N/A

2025-11-06 11:06:44.553 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant.streams] Error streaming QueueItem Jane Weaver - The Revolution of Super Visions (Edit) (tidal://track/273659327) to Tavernaudio

2025-11-06 11:08:24.038 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.tidal] Making request to Tidal API: tracks/159150492

[OzGav]

Please dont paste walls of log text. Again throttling has nothing to do with MA. MA explicitly limits API calls.

[Bennett-Wendorf]

Unsure if this is related, but Spotify is also broken for me today. I don't have any other providers to test with unfortunately. I am getting some slightly different logs:

2025-11-06 08:40:03.775 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant.streams] AudioError while streaming queue item Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (spotify://track/2CtemffYhT0DJWcT1XW047): Error while streaming: FFMpeg exited with code 183: [in#0 @ 0x7fd116623100] Error opening input: Invalid data found when processing input
Error opening input file -.
Error opening input files: Invalid data found when processing input
2025-11-06 08:40:03.775 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.player_queues] Skipping unplayable item Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (library://track/337)
2025-11-06 08:40:03.905 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.streams] Start Queue Flow stream for Queue Office Voice Satellite Media Player - crossfade: disabled 
2025-11-06 08:40:13.634 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] No audio received from librespot within timeout for spotify://track:4LFBVDJV0xpayUvquQVzhS - will retry once

This began after updating to 2.7.0b10, but restring a backup and rolling back to 2.7.0b9 did not resolve the issue.

[OzGav]

Likely some Spotify outage

[Bennett-Wendorf]

I'll give it some time and check back this afternoon, but I kinda doubt that it's truly a Spotify issue. Their own web player and mobile app work fine and DownDetector shows no problems.

[big-barlowe]

Unsure if this is related, but Spotify is also broken for me today. I don't have any other providers to test with unfortunately. I am getting some slightly different logs:

I don't think it's a related to the issue in this thread, but I'm experiencing the same thing as you. Librespot connects and authenticates to ap-gue1.spotify.com:4070 but throws a "Track should be available, but no alternatives found." and it times out after not receiving audio. So, I think there may be some Spotify related outage since it was working this morning.

[mycarrysun]

I'm getting this as well:

2025-11-06 10:42:17.385 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.spotify] No audio received from librespot within timeout - will retry once
[2025-11-06T15:42:22Z INFO  librespot] librespot 0.6.0-dev accecb6 (Built on 2025-08-10, Build ID: 3IxFEb9f, Profile: release)
[2025-11-06T15:42:22Z INFO  librespot] Connecting...
[2025-11-06T15:42:22Z INFO  librespot_core::session] Connecting to AP "ap-guc3.spotify.com:4070"
[2025-11-06T15:42:22Z INFO  librespot_core::session] Authenticated as '1212116433' !
[2025-11-06T15:42:22Z INFO  librespot_playback::audio_backend::pipe] Using StdoutSink (pipe) with format: S16
[2025-11-06T15:42:22Z INFO  librespot_core::session] Country: "US"
[2025-11-06T15:42:23Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Track should be available, but no alternatives found.
[2025-11-06T15:42:23Z WARN  librespot_playback::player] <spotify:track:3Xg2ZCPPKfWsj9W8cmLbHF> is not available
[2025-11-06T15:42:23Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Skipping to next track, unable to load track <SpotifyId("spotify:track:3Xg2ZCPPKfWsj9W8cmLbHF")>: ()

[swesharkie]

Getting the same here unfortunately, the only other thing I've managed to try though was playing spotify on my phone and via browser and those worked just fine. Also playing local files via MA-announcement works as well.
Logs looks like the same issue though;

[2025-11-06T15:56:11Z INFO librespot] librespot 0.6.0-dev accecb6 (Built on 2025-08-10, Build ID: 3IxFEb9f, Profile: release) [2025-11-06T15:56:11Z INFO librespot] Connecting... [2025-11-06T15:56:11Z INFO librespot_core::session] Connecting to AP "ap-gew4.spotify.com:4070" [2025-11-06T15:56:11Z INFO librespot_core::session] Authenticated as 'swe.sharkie' ! [2025-11-06T15:56:11Z INFO librespot_core::session] Country: "SE" [2025-11-06T15:56:11Z INFO librespot_playback::audio_backend::pipe] Using StdoutSink (pipe) with format: S16 [2025-11-06T15:56:11Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Track should be available, but no alternatives found. [2025-11-06T15:56:11Z WARN librespot_playback::player] <spotify:track:0njrmvVVWIrcEXkUA4MOO7> is not available [2025-11-06T15:56:11Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Skipping to next track, unable to load track <SpotifyId("spotify:track:0njrmvVVWIrcEXkUA4MOO7")>: () 2025-11-06 16:56:13.470 ERROR (MainThread) [ffmpeg.217] Stream error: No audio received from librespot within timeout 2025-11-06 16:56:13.543 WARNING (MainThread) [ffmpeg.217] [in#0 @ 0x7fa1fdd49800] Error opening input: Invalid data found when processing input Error opening input file -. Error opening input files: Invalid data found when processing input 2025-11-06 16:56:13.544 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant.audio.cache] Error while creating cache for spotify://track/0njrmvVVWIrcEXkUA4MOO7: FFMpeg error 183 2025-11-06 16:56:13.547 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.player_queues] Skipping unplayable item Tungevaag/ItaloBrothers - Springfield (library://track/631) 2025-11-06 16:56:13.548 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant] Error doing task: Task exception was never retrieved Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/music_assistant/controllers/player_queues.py", line 854, in _play_index raise MediaNotFoundError("No playable item found to start playback") music_assistant_models.errors.MediaNotFoundError: No playable item found to start playback 2025-11-06 16:56:36.120 ERROR (MainThread) [ffmpeg.274] Stream error: No audio received from librespot within timeout