Music randomly starts playing hours after power-off or pause, reproducible

[philhzss]

Music randomly started playing on all my speakers every day, random times, and now just realised its related to queues

In the logs the only thing I see that is related is this:

23:23:29 - Finished Queue Flow stream for Queue Entire House
23:23:31 - Resuming playback after flow stream completed for Entire House
23:23:33 - Start Queue Flow stream for Queue Entire House

And I just did a test. If I setup a queue with only 2 songs, let it play for a second, then pause. Or even power-off. Then I wait, and "when the queue would have ended", my speakers turn back on and restart the queue.

But repeat mode is set to off, "don't stop the music" is disabled... "Automatically play/resume on power on" is off. I really don't know what's causing this but it seems to be related to hitting the end of the queue, any ideas?

I guess a workaround might be to clear the queue entirely when I'm done listening but why is it restarting on its own?

Thanks

[OzGav]

We need more info. What devices? What protocols are in use?

[philhzss]

That is a sync player group composed of 2 raspberry Pi's, using the built in snap server, playing from Navidrome/Subsonic but I also have Bandcamp and Spotify as providers

I don't know if this is normal but there is no log entry when I pause, and same for powering off the (sync group) speakers.

This is when I was playing:

2026-05-03 20:50:03.557 INFO Fetching tracks to play for playlist Chillhop Music discography [lo-fi hiphop / jazzy beats]
2026-05-03 20:50:05.253 INFO Setting active output protocol on Dining Room to Native
2026-05-03 20:50:05.281 INFO Start Queue Flow stream for Queue Entire House - crossfade: disabled
2026-05-03 20:51:44.676 INFO Start Queue Flow stream for Queue Entire House - crossfade: disabled
2026-05-03 21:07:21.649 INFO Fetching tracks to play for playlist Chillhop Music discography [lo-fi hiphop / jazzy beats]
2026-05-03 21:07:39.353 INFO Start Queue Flow stream for Queue Entire House - crossfade: disabled
2026-05-03 21:09:22.353 INFO Fetching tracks to play for playlist COUNTRY ALEX
2026-05-03 21:09:25.713 INFO Start Queue Flow stream for Queue Entire House - crossfade: disabled

And then all I have is the 3 lines that I pasted above.. I stopped the music at around 21:30 I'd say?

Thank you

[OzGav]

We don’t have a dedicated Snapcast dev at the moment. Whilst we have no other users reporting this you could switch to using Picoreplayer on the PIs and see how you go with that.

[philhzss]

I actually just tried to use a manually installed Snapserver instead of the built-in one and its not doing it anymore, maybe something wrong with the built-in snapserver (or the way it's configured on my side or something)? I'm looking into Picoreplayer if you think its still worth trying but it was faster for me to try this, thank you

[OzGav]

It is unlikely this will get looked at any time soon due to the lack of a maintainer so I suggest either continue using the external snap server or switch to Picoreplayer

[philhzss]

Ok no worries, thank you!