Steam Music Player is unstable on Steam Client Beta

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5853 · opened 2018-10-21 by ghost · updated 2022-02-26 · 3 comments · github

?ghost 2018-10-21 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): steam-runtime-beta-release_2018-09-03
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 18.10
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

After several minutes of steam running, the Steam Music Player will no longer work; Skipping every song in 4 to 10 second jumps, recovering; then continuing. Switching to Stable resolves these issues

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Switch to Steam Client Beta.
Begin playing Music. (Library > Music > [An Album] > Play Album)
Let steam run for 4 to 8 minutes
The Music Player should begin acting up

Nnightsky30 2018-11-11 github

I just witnessed the same issue after playing music successfully for a good 20-30 minutes.

?ghost 2021-01-01 github

Three years later and I just experienced a very similar issue in rhythmbox. I believe the issue may be related to the library being used for audio playback (gstreamer I believe)

Iipr 2022-02-26 github

This problem occurs on "stable" Steam client as well (build 16.1.2022, 17:34:49). I was playing music, then played a game and after a while tried to play music but with the problem occurring: no sound, playback skips in increments of around 10s forward.

Playing music with another (non-Steam) application works so the audio device is working (Pipewire). Only the the player in Steam somehow loses audio output. Playing sound with (for example) aplay, paplay and pw-play works.

I think issue could be named more clearly: no sound and skipping playback. It is not "unstable" since it doesn't crash, it just doesn't produce output for some reason.

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