React-native-track-player: Loosing connection changing WIFI to 4G on online streams

[maendamedia]

Configuration

"react-native-track-player": "1.2.0",

Issue

When changing the internet connection from WIFI to 4G (or vice-versa), the player looses connection and not resuming the stream anymore. I need to hard restart the app to restart the playing state.

Is there an event handler with example i can use to fix this or is there a way to prevent this?

[maendamedia]

Anyone? ☺️

[Xammie]

Hey @maendamedia, You could use the plackback-error event to retry playing when an connection error occurs. Or maby something like @react-native-community/netinfo to know if you are connected to WiFi or 4G.

[mhabegger]

@maendamedia this is a normal iOS behavior. We solved this by storing the playing state (i.e. shouldBePlaying) separately.
When the state of the player changes to State.Stopped while shouldBePlaying is still true we force a TrackPlayer.play() and assume there was an unintentional interruption thus restarting the stream.

But I think it's technically impossible to handle this without interruption on online live streams as the TCP connection itself disconnects when the network interface changes.

[sslash]

@mhabegger how do you know if the player-changed event happened because a user hit stop, or something else?