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Problem

Pressing next on a DLNA renderer sometimes skipped two tracks.

loadAndPlay sends Stop and SetAVTransportURI before Play. If the 1 s poll's GetTransportInfo
lands in that window it reads STOPPED, and when that response arrives after Play has succeeded
it overwrites the PLAYING state loadAndPlay just set. PlayerProvider sees "was playing, now
STOPPED", treats it as the end of the track and advances again.

On a Pixel 7 Pro against upmpdcli, the stale STOPPED arrived 1 ms after "Playing ... (instant)",
on about one in three next presses.

Fix

Track loads with an epoch that is bumped at the start and end of each load, plus an in-flight
count, and discard any poll result whose request overlapped a load. The next tick reads the
renderer again, so a real STOPPED still gets through.

The whole result is dropped, not just the transport state: position and volume read across a
Stop/SetAVTransportURI are just as stale. The cost is at most one 1 s tick of lag during a load.

Testing

  • 3 new tests against a fake renderer on loopback: a poll overlapping a load is discarded, and a
    genuine STOPPED after the load is still delivered.
  • flutter test: master's 118 passing tests plus the 3 new ones pass. The 13 tests that fail on
    master fail the same way here, and there are no new analyzer issues.
  • Pixel 7 Pro + upmpdcli, on a build with this and my other pending UPnP fixes: 10/10 single next
    presses and 3/3 rapid double presses each advanced exactly one track.

Independent of the other UPnP PRs; they merge cleanly in any order.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented outdated playback updates from interrupting a track load. Genuine stopped-state updates continue to be reported when no load is in progress.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for delayed playback updates during track loading and for genuine stopped states.

loadAndPlay sends Stop and SetAVTransportURI before Play. A poll whose
GetTransportInfo lands in that window reads STOPPED, and if the response
arrives after Play succeeded it overwrites the PLAYING state loadAndPlay
just set. PlayerProvider reads "was playing, now STOPPED" as the end of
the track and advances again, so pressing next on a DLNA renderer
intermittently skipped two tracks.

Seen on a Pixel 7 Pro against upmpdcli: the stale STOPPED arrived 1 ms
after "Playing ... (instant)", on one of three next presses.

Track loads with an epoch bumped at start and finish plus an in-flight
count, and discard any poll result whose request overlapped a load. The
next tick reads the renderer afresh, so a genuine STOPPED still gets
through; the tests pin both sides against a fake renderer on loopback.

The whole result is dropped, not just its transport state: position and
volume read across a Stop/SetAVTransportURI are just as stale, and the cost
is at most one 1 s tick of lag while a load is in flight.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

UpnpService now tracks load operations and ignores playback-state poll responses that overlap a load. New tests use a loopback fake renderer to check stale poll handling and confirm that a STOPPED response is applied when no load is in flight.

Changes

UPnP stale poll handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track loads and filter poll responses
lib/services/upnp_service.dart, test/services/upnp_stale_poll_test.dart
loadAndPlay tracks in-flight loads and updates a load epoch. _poll discards responses if a load is active or the epoch changed during the request. Tests cover polls sent before and during a load, plus a STOPPED response with no load in flight.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: dddevid

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 178af

Playback state can briefly appear stale during a track load. Move the final load check before applying any poll values; this is a bounded issue to fix or explicitly accept before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 178af

The change limits stale renderer updates without expanding access or privileges. Some polling and reconnection timing cases remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The affected path runs from the connected renderer’s playback response through UpnpService to its existing player-state consumer. The observed effect is limited to whether a renderer update is published.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The service checks its load epoch and in-flight count before applying the playback-state result. Those controls govern local state publication, not renderer identity or authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Disconnect cancels future polling ticks but does not invalidate an already-running poll. Source comparison shows this connection-ownership gap predates the new load guard.
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In `@lib/services/upnp_service.dart`:
- Around line 371-380: Update `_poll` so it fetches any scheduled volume before
applying poll results, then performs the final `_loadsInFlight` and `_loadEpoch`
guard. Move all transport, position, duration, track URI, and volume assignments
after that guard so a load starting during `getVolume()` prevents stale state
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Comment on lines +371 to +380
final epoch = _loadEpoch;
final state = await getPlaybackState();

// loadAndPlay sends Stop and SetAVTransportURI before Play, so a poll
// whose request overlapped it can read STOPPED and deliver it after Play
// has succeeded. Listeners take "was playing, now STOPPED" as the end of
// the track and advance again, skipping the track that was just loaded.
// Drop such a result; the next tick reads the renderer afresh.
if (_loadsInFlight > 0 || epoch != _loadEpoch) return;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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printf '%s\n' '--- complete poll/load regions ---'
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Apply the poll result only after the final load check.

_poll writes transport and position values before awaiting getVolume(). If loadAndPlay() starts during that await, the poll can notify listeners with stale renderer state before _loadAndPlay() reaches its PLAYING assignment. The current caller suppresses track completion while loading, so the supported impact is a transient stale state, not a demonstrated skipped track.

Move all poll-result assignments after the final guard.

Suggested fix
-      bool changed = false;
-      if (state.transportState != _rendererState) {
-        _rendererState = state.transportState;
-        changed = true;
-      }
-      if (state.position != _rendererPosition) {
-        _rendererPosition = state.position;
-        changed = true;
-      }
-      if (state.duration != _rendererDuration) {
-        _rendererDuration = state.duration;
-        changed = true;
-      }
-      if (state.trackUri != null &&
-          state.trackUri!.isNotEmpty &&
-          state.trackUri != _currentTrackUri) {
-        _currentTrackUri = state.trackUri;
-        changed = true;
-      }
-
+      int? vol;
       if (device.renderingControlUrl != null && _pollCount % 5 == 0) {
-        final vol = await getVolume();
-        if (vol >= 0 && vol != _volume) {
-          _volume = vol;
-          changed = true;
-        }
+        vol = await getVolume();
       }
+      if (_loadsInFlight > 0 || epoch != _loadEpoch) return;
+
+      bool changed = false;
+      if (state.transportState != _rendererState) {
+        _rendererState = state.transportState;
+        changed = true;
+      }
+      if (state.position != _rendererPosition) {
+        _rendererPosition = state.position;
+        changed = true;
+      }
+      if (state.duration != _rendererDuration) {
+        _rendererDuration = state.duration;
+        changed = true;
+      }
+      if (state.trackUri != null &&
+          state.trackUri!.isNotEmpty &&
+          state.trackUri != _currentTrackUri) {
+        _currentTrackUri = state.trackUri;
+        changed = true;
+      }
+      if (vol != null && vol >= 0 && vol != _volume) {
+        _volume = vol;
+        changed = true;
+      }
 
       if (changed) {
         _safeNotifyListeners();
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In `@lib/services/upnp_service.dart` around lines 371 - 380, Update `_poll` so it
fetches any scheduled volume before applying poll results, then performs the
final `_loadsInFlight` and `_loadEpoch` guard. Move all transport, position,
duration, track URI, and volume assignments after that guard so a load starting
during `getVolume()` prevents stale state from being applied or listeners being
notified.

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