Music playback sometimes stalls between tracks in Android Mobile app on cellular

[benmoses 4]

Running version 3.5.49

Library is a mix of flac and mp3 files.

When remote (cellular) bandwidth cap is set to 1Mbps I encounter this seemingly random stall cleanly, between tracks when playing a playlist of mixed mp3 and flac filetypes.  I noticed that most of the time currently playing flac file would be transcoded to AAC due to this limit.  This behavior is good and expected.  However it seems like if the next track after the currently playing, transcoded AAC file was an mp3 file, that's when the playback would stall between tracks.  The next song, the mp3 file, would not begin playing after the AAC track finished.

If I raised the remote (cellular) cap to 1.5 Mbps, no transcoding occurs and I get no playback stalling at all.  I can play a playlist for hours, no problem.  (However I chew through my cel plan pretty fast) <-- not good.  I think this means that flac and mp3's are coexisting just fine.

In a third scenario, I lowered the remote (cellular) cap to 256kbps, thought being "OK let's transcode everything", but to no avail I'm encountering the stalling again and I think it's for the same reason.  I think after an AAC transcoded track is played and an mp3 is next, the playback stalls.  (Reason being, even at 256kbps, the mp3 files still don't need to be transcoded.)

Is there a known issue with playback of mixed types here?  Can one force Emby server to transcode to mp3 instead of AAC?  I think I already know that there's no setting to force Emby to transcode in general, correct?

I'll post my log file here.  I used the anonymize button.

 

Thank you!

Ben

embyserver (1).txt

[Luke 42973]

Hi, I think we need to look at improving resiliency to network disruptions. I think it has more to do with that than transcoding vs not transcoding.