weird issue with opening a YouTube search not opening anything

[RJVB]

Here's something weird that happens to me from time to time: double-clicking one of the results of a YT search doesn't open anything because the URL somehow gets lost?

Then, when I double-click it a second time:

This time it happened with a search result list that was maybe 1 or 2 days old, and thus had seen 1 or 2 suspend-wake cycles.

Seems unlikely, but is it possible that we're looking at the result of data being read back from swap and a time-out, here? Anything else that could interrupt the task in a way that an entry still gets made in the playlist but never gets initialised properly?

It's not a big deal other than that it happens that I think I'm launching something I just want to listen to, move back to another desktop and then wonder after minutes why I'm still not hearing anything ;)

[zaps166]

Do you use any custom code (e.g. for yt-dlp)?

[RJVB]

On Thursday January 15 2026 16:05:25 Błażej Szczygieł wrote: zaps166 left a comment (zaps166/QMPlay2#995) Do you use any custom code (e.g. for yt-dlp)?

Yes, and no. I unpack yt-dlp each time when it's been updated and then invoke the main script instead of the yt-dlp executable. But that should not make any difference here; this issue seems to occur between a succesful YT search (is yt-dlp used for that?) and the handing-off of an URL to yt-dlp. From the looks of it, a playlist entry is made at the same time yt-dlp is called with an URL, OR the launching even goes via the playlist (= make the playlist entry then launch the new entry). The URL is there in the search results list. (I'd of course check without my mod if the issue were easier to reproduce.)