Weird local file behaviour

[Francesco10]

Plan

Premium

Country

Italy

Device

Samsung A52s 5G

I have noticed a weird thing when using local files. I noticed that when in a playlist if you transition from a 48khz sample rate local file to a 44.1khz sample rate local file or to a regular spotify track, the new track will go from 0 to 1 seconds, then back to 0 and then the song will play. This kinda messes with transitions and sometimes you don't even hear the first few bits of the song. This behavior happens on both my phone and also on the desktop app.

Isn't this strange? I'd assume 48khz would be fine but apparently not.

[Yordan]

Hey @Francesco10!

I just tried it on my end and was able to reproduce both on my phone and on my PC. Like you pointed out, the glitch seems to occur only when the 48khz song ends and transitions into the 44.1khz one - switching to a 44.1khz track manually was smooth, without any issues.

In general, the app supports sampling rate up to 192khz, but I think in this case the issue is caused by latency, as the app takes some time to switch to the sampling rate of the current track. For me, the glitch didn't occur when a 48khz track transitioned to another 48khz track, same with 44.1khz files. It occurred only when the sampling rate of the next track was different.

It's possible that the lack of gapless playback for local files is also contributing to the glitch. There's an idea about implementing this feature that you may find interesting, so feel free to check it out and share your feedback, if you haven't already.

I'd like to also mention that I didn't experience any cutouts on my end during the transition from one track to another. All songs started the way they're supposed to start.

Hope this clears things up. Cheers!

[Francesco10]

Hello, listening back it seems like you're right. There's not really cutouts, but the transitions are a lot less smooth because of the issue. I tried voting the gapless playback for local files idea, in case that has to do with the issue.

Until any change, I think I'm going to just downsample the 48khz files to 44.1 so that the transitions are smooth.