A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

[2026.06.18]

Fixed

• server: hard-exit when run_http_server() returns Err — the spawning thread used to log and exit silently, leaving :6063 dead while the rest of rockboxd kept running and surfaced only as downstream GraphQL request errors
• playback: skip HTTP look-ahead of the currently-playing URL — REPEAT_ALL on a single-track playlist wrapped playlist_peek(+N) back to the same URL every look-ahead cycle, each iteration spawning a fresh TCP+TLS+GET and a 4 MB prefetch; treating same-URL HTTP look-ahead as end-of-playlist lets natural-end re-load the next URL fresh without thrashing the buffering thread (local files unaffected — they share the page cache)
• playback: throttle HTTP look-ahead while the current track is still streaming — parallel HTTP bufopens shared the buffering-thread filechunk round-robin and starved the active codec until "no more PCM data" fired; deferred until the active stream finishes
• pcm-cmaf: poll every 10 ms for up to 5 s for the next PCM chunk before bailing — the sink used to give up the instant pcm_play_dma_complete_callback returned false, killing playback within ~23 ms of every track start whenever the codec hadn't queued the next chunk yet
• library: replace .expect() panics on Probe::open() in the album_art, copyright_message, and label extractors with logged errors that return Ok(None), so an unreadable track no longer aborts the library scan

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig/compare/2026.06.15...2026.06.18