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v28 — kill the 30-60s Spotify Connect delay
What's in v28
Spotify Connect device pickups now consistently complete in 1-2 seconds instead of 30-60.
Root cause
The kiosk's first session-creation attempt occasionally fails on the TCP connect to a Spotify accesspoint (random pick from a 6-AP pool, some are intermittently unreachable). The phone-side Connect protocol then waits ~33 seconds before re-sending /addUser, which is the user-visible delay. Identified via fleet logs from `get_logs`:
```
16:30:22.143 Accepted new user from iPhone
16:30:22.959 ERROR ZeroconfServer - Couldn't establish a new session.
(33s of phone-side retry timeout)
16:30:55.006 Accepted new user from iPhone ← retry, succeeds
```
Fix
Patched librespot's `ZeroconfServer.handleAddUser` (in our local clone) to retry session creation up to 5 times with 200ms backoff before giving up. Each retry picks a fresh random AP, so a different one is tried. With 6 APs in the typical pool and most working, retries usually succeed on attempt 2.
Worst case: ~5s before giving up. Still vastly better than the 33s phone-side timeout.