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Cheaper track changes: Spotify Soloist advertises its real single-stream limit (#6172)
# What does this implement/fix? Follow-up to #6141 and #6170. The soloist engine plays one single-track run at a time, but the provider still advertised librespot's two-slot stream budget. The next-track prefetch (~60s before a track ends) therefore passed the upfront slot check and spun up a full pipeline — audio buffer, ffmpeg, engine request — twice per track change, only for the engine to refuse it. #6170 silenced the warnings this produced; this removes the wasted work itself. - the stream-slot budget now follows the configured backend: one slot for soloist (which is what the provider README already documented), and three for librespot to cover two playing queues plus a prebuffer - no new machinery: with a truthful slot count, the early prefetch now costs a short quiet wait on the slot instead of a pipeline spawn, and the retry fired once the current track has fully arrived takes the freed slot, as before - replaces the soloist module docstring that still described the continuous-session design #6141 removed **Related issue (if applicable):** - related issue N/A ## Types of changes <!-- Tick exactly one box. CI (.github/workflows/pr-labels.yaml) derives the label from the ticked box and applies it automatically; the release-notes generator uses that same label to slot this change into the next release notes. --> - [x] Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) — `bugfix` - [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality) — `new-feature` - [ ] Enhancement to an existing feature — `enhancement` - [ ] New music/player/metadata/plugin provider — `new-provider` - [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected) — `breaking-change` - [ ] Refactor (no behaviour change) — `refactor` - [ ] Documentation only — `documentation` - [ ] Maintenance / chore — `maintenance` - [ ] CI / workflow change — `ci` - [ ] Dependencies bump — `dependencies` ## Checklist - [x] The code change is tested and works locally. - [x] `pre-commit run --all-files` passes. - [x] `pytest` passes, and tests have been added/updated under `tests/` where applicable. - [ ] For changes to shared models, the companion PR in `music-assistant/models` is linked. - [ ] For changes affecting the UI, the companion PR in `music-assistant/frontend` is linked. - [x] I have read and complied with the project's [AI Policy](https://github.com/music-assistant/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md) for any AI-assisted contributions. - [ ] I have [raised a PR against the documentation repository](https://github.com/music-assistant/music-assistant.io/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) targeting the main or beta branch as appropriate.
Author
Marcel van der Veldt<[email protected]>
September 2, 2026 at 09:48 PM UTC
Committer
Marvin Schenkel<[email protected]>
September 4, 2026 at 07:55 AM UTC
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music_assistant/providers/spotify/
music_assistant/providers/spotify/backends/
tests/providers/spotify/
tests/providers/stream_limits/
music_assistant/providers/spotify/README.md
music_assistant/providers/spotify/backends/soloist.py
+4-10
music_assistant/providers/spotify/provider.py
tests/providers/spotify/test_backends.py
+16-7
tests/providers/stream_limits/test_stream_limits.py
+2-2