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feat(behavior): cap the streaming audio cache with streaming_audio_cache_limit - #966
The native streaming audio cache had no size cap: streaming_audio_cache is only an on/off switch, and the librespot cache is built with no limit, so the audio cache grows without bound.
This adds a streaming_audio_cache_limit behavior key parsed from values like 1G, 512M or a bare byte count. Empty and 0 mean unlimited. The parsed limit is passed to the librespot audio cache size limiter, which prunes the cache to the limit on startup and as new audio is written. The setting applies when streaming_audio_cache is enabled and takes effect after a restart, like the other streaming keys.
An invalid value is a fatal config error even when audio caching is disabled, the same policy auto_update_delay follows. The limit is for the librespot player; Soloist keeps its own fixed cache cap.
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New Features
Added a configurable size limit for the streaming audio cache. Enter a byte count or a size with a K, M, or G suffix; leave the setting empty or enter 0 for unlimited.
The limit applies when streaming audio caching is enabled and takes effect after restarting. Invalid values are rejected, even when caching is disabled.
Documentation
Updated configuration guidance with accepted formats, behavior, and examples.
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Add a streaming_audio_cache_limit behavior key parsed from 1G-style
values (K/M/G suffixes or a bare byte count; empty or 0 means
unlimited), validated on the config load, Settings edit and SetSetting
paths, and passed to the librespot audio cache size limiter. The limit
applies when streaming_audio_cache is enabled and takes effect after a
restart; the cache is pruned on startup and as new audio is written.
Soloist keeps its own fixed cache cap.
ClosesLargeModGames#957
Adds a configurable limit for the streaming audio cache. The setting accepts byte counts and binary K/M/G suffixes. Empty or zero values mean unlimited. When audio caching is enabled, startup passes the parsed limit to cache creation.
Changes: Streaming audio cache limit
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Summary
Cache limit configuration and parsing src/core/user_config.rs, docs/configuration.md, CHANGELOG.md
Adds the configuration field and size parser. Loading validates the value even when caching is disabled, and serialization preserves it. Tests cover parsing, validation, and YAML round-tripping.
Settings registration and validation src/core/app/*, src/core/i18n/settings*, src/gui/protocol.rs, src/tui/handlers/settings.rs, src/core/action/tests.rs
Adds the setting to the settings interfaces and localized text. Invalid edits display an error and retain the current edit state. Tests cover valid and invalid values.
Passes the configured limit to cache creation when audio caching is enabled. Tests check cache pruning with a limit and behavior when caching is disabled or the limit is absent. Documentation describes the limit and its scope.
sequenceDiagram
participant prepare_frontend
participant parse_audio_cache_limit
participant StreamingConfig
participant Cache
prepare_frontend->>parse_audio_cache_limit: Parse configured limit when audio caching is enabled
parse_audio_cache_limit-->>prepare_frontend: Return optional byte limit
prepare_frontend->>StreamingConfig: Set audio_cache_limit
StreamingConfig->>Cache: Pass limit to Cache::new
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Possibly related PRs
LargeModGames/spotatui#935: Adds Soloist’s fixed cache cap, which the documentation distinguishes from the configurable librespot limit.
LargeModGames/spotatui#955: Updates the pinned librespot packages connected to the cache implementation used by this change.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to eb594
Setting a streaming audio cache limit can make librespot prune files through a symlinked directory inside the cache folder. With a very large cache, startup pruning can also exceed the player-build timeout and drop playback back to the Web API. Resolve both before merging.
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Issue #957 requests a setting that enforces a maximum audio-cache size. The pull request adds parsing, validation, persistence, UI, runtime wiring, and pruning tests for streaming_audio_cache_limit.…
Fix the pinned librespot cache implementation, or use a release that contains the init_dir and save_file symlink fixes. Keep a regression test that verifies pruning enforces the configured limit with the affected cache layout.
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The changes remain connected to issue #957. Configuration parsing, validation, persistence, settings UI, localization, documentation, runtime wiring, blocking cache initialization, pruning tests, and …
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The title uses the conventional-commit prefix "feat" with the scope "behavior", which matches the title requirement. It names the setting streaming_audio_cache_limit, which is the main change in the changeset: a new behavior key that caps the librespot streaming audio cache, with parsing, validation, settings UI, GUI, and runtime wiring all tied to it. The subject is concise and imperative.
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The changes remain connected to issue #957. Configuration parsing, validation, persistence, settings UI, localization, documentation, runtime wiring, blocking cache initialization, pruning tests, and changelog updates support the audio-cache limit. No unrelated change is demonstrated. The Soloist cache remains unchanged as stated.
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Issue #957 requests a setting that enforces a maximum audio-cache size. The pull request adds parsing, validation, persistence, UI, runtime wiring, and pruning tests for streaming_audio_cache_limit. However, the review summary reports unresolved symlink defects in the pinned spotatui-librespot-core cache implementation, specifically in init_dir and save_file, and states that the fork fix remains a prerequisite. The available evidence therefore does not support reliable cache-limit enforcement at the reviewed head.
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Fix the pinned librespot cache implementation, or use a release that contains the init_dir and save_file symlink fixes. Keep a regression test that verifies pruning enforces the configured limit with the affected cache layout.
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Review comments at @src/infra/player/streaming.rs:
- Line 698: Update the audio cache pruning setup associated with
config.audio_cache_limit to exclude symlinked directories before the limiter can
traverse or delete their contents. Preserve pruning of eligible directories
within the audio cache, and verify the limiter’s supported behavior before
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- Line 698: Update the cache write flow configured by config.audio_cache_limit
so it makes room in limiter accounting before copying when the incoming size is
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CHANGELOG.md
docs/configuration.md
docs/native-streaming.md
src/core/action/tests.rs
src/core/app/settings_apply.rs
src/core/app/settings_schema.rs
src/core/i18n/settings.rs
src/core/i18n/settings/en.rs
src/core/i18n/settings/zh_hans.rs
src/core/i18n/settings/zh_hant.rs
src/core/user_config.rs
src/gui/protocol.rs
src/infra/player/streaming.rs
src/runtime/startup.rs
src/tui/handlers/settings.rs
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set -eu
tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)"trap'rm -rf "$tmpdir"' EXIT
curl -fsSL https://static.crates.io/crates/spotatui-librespot-core/spotatui-librespot-core-0.8.7.crate |
tar -xz -C "$tmpdir"
cache="$tmpdir/spotatui-librespot-core-0.8.7/src/cache.rs"printf'%s\n''--- published cache definitions and pruning ---'
nl -ba "$cache"| sed -n '1,145p'
nl -ba "$cache"| sed -n '190,330p'printf'%s\n''--- reviewed call and diff ---'
git show c077290d977e439a0d9c25da20c16c3ce838e8d9:src/infra/player/streaming.rs | nl -ba | sed -n '670,715p'
git diff --unified=30 d384a92c60a2fdbf18cbad51da706df77d7e02b3 c077290d977e439a0d9c25da20c16c3ce838e8d9 -- src/infra/player/streaming.rs | sed -n '1,220p'
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Prevent pruning outside the audio cache.
If a directory inside audio is a symlink, the 0.8.7 cache limiter follows it and can delete files in its target when the limit is exceeded. Exclude symlinked directories from pruning before enabling the limiter.
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Review comment at @src/infra/player/streaming.rs at line 698:
Update the audio cache pruning setup associated with config.audio_cache_limit to
exclude symlinked directories before the limiter can traverse or delete their
contents. Preserve pruning of eligible directories within the audio cache, and
verify the limiter’s supported behavior before configuring the exclusion.
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set -eu
tmp=$(mktemp)trap'rm -f "$tmp"' EXIT
curl -fsSL https://static.crates.io/crates/spotatui-librespot-core/spotatui-librespot-core-0.8.7.crate |
tar -xzO spotatui-librespot-core-0.8.7/src/cache.rs >"$tmp"printf'%s\n''--- limiter implementation ---'
sed -n '1,190p'"$tmp"printf'%s\n''--- constructor and cache API context ---'
sed -n '190,315p'"$tmp"
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Prevent failed cache writes from creating cache hits.
The spotatui-librespot-core 0.8.7 cache writes the file before it updates the limiter. If the copy fails, the partial destination remains. Cache::file can then open that path as a cache hit, while touch cannot add it to limiter accounting. Make room for the incoming file before copying when its size is known, and remove the destination on every copy failure.
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Review comment at @src/infra/player/streaming.rs at line 698:
Update the cache write flow configured by config.audio_cache_limit so it makes
room in limiter accounting before copying when the incoming size is known, and
removes the destination whenever copying fails. Preserve Cache::file’s ability
to treat only successfully written, accounted files as cache hits; establish the
available limiter and cleanup APIs before implementing this behavior.
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Both findings are valid in the pinned spotatui-librespot-core 0.8.7 cache implementation. The fixes belong in the fork's init_dir and save_file, but this PR enables pruning when a limit is configured, so the symlink issue matters here. I suggest handling the fixes in a separate fork PR and waiting for spotatui to pin a fixed release before merging this change.
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Thanks for this. I'll hold off on approving until the fork fix for the symlink issue lands, as you suggested. A few small things in the meantime:
The docs and the setting description use 10K as an example. That is smaller than any audio file, so librespot writes each track and prunes it right after save_file: the cache stays empty while every track is still written to disk. A realistic example such as 512M, or a warning below some minimum, would avoid that.
prepare_frontend turns the stored value into bytes with .expect(...). Every writer I found validates first, so it can't fire today, but logging a warning and falling back to None would keep a future unvalidated writer from crashing startup.
Cache::new now walks and prunes the whole audio directory synchronously inside the async new_cache_only, at startup and on each backend rebuild. For someone who turns a limit on after months of unlimited caching, that can block a runtime worker for a while; wrapping it in spawn_blocking would avoid that.
Nit: the CHANGELOG entry could follow its neighbours' format, with a bold title and a link to #957.
Review follow-ups for LargeModGames#957:
- use 1G/512M examples instead of 10K in the setting descriptions
- fall back to an unlimited cache with a warning when the stored limit
cannot be parsed instead of panicking at startup
- build the librespot cache on the blocking pool so pruning a large
cache cannot stall an async runtime worker
- match the neighbouring changelog entry format
The setting descriptions in all three locales now use 1G/512M examples, and the regenerated GUI strings match them.
The startup expect is now a warning with an unlimited-cache fallback. Invalid values in the config file still fail validation on load, so this only covers a future writer that skips validation.
Cache::new runs on Tokio's blocking pool, awaited before the cached credentials are read, so pruning a long-unlimited cache no longer stalls an async runtime worker. Both the startup path and the backend rebuilds go through it.
The changelog entry now follows the neighbouring format and links Audio cache limit #957.
Checked locally: cargo test --lib audio_cache_limit 8 passed; the full lib suite 2378 passed; the slim (telemetry,tui) suite 1863 passed; the gui+streaming+self-update suite 1670 passed; clippy -D warnings clean on slim, default and gui+streaming; cargo fmt --check clean; the GUI npm run lint, format:check, typecheck and vitest run (574 passed) all clean; the gates ratchet passes.
The fork's symlink fix remains the prerequisite for approval, as agreed.
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- Line 697: Separate the `Cache::new` work launched by
`tokio::task::spawn_blocking` from the `player_build_timeout()` handshake
deadline so cache pruning can continue without aborting player startup. Ensure
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Sources consulted:
- spotatui/Cargo.toml at main · LargeModGames/spotatui · GitHub — https://github.cnmirror.site/LargeModGames/spotatui/blob/main/Cargo.toml
- Issues · LargeModGames/spotatui · GitHub — https://safaia.net/LargeModGames/spotatui/issues
- librespot 0.8.0 - Docs.rs — https://docs.rs/crate/librespot/latest/source/examples/play_connect.rs
- GitHub - LargeModGames/spotatui-librespot: Open Source Spotify client library · GitHub — https://github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui-librespot
- spotatui/Cargo.lock at main · LargeModGames/spotatui · GitHub — https://safaia.net/LargeModGames/spotatui/blob/main/Cargo.lock
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site:github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui-librespot "audio_cache_limit" OR "max_size" cache.rs
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I couldn’t find indexed GitHub results for `audio_cache_limit`, `max_size`, or `cache.rs` in `LargeModGames/spotatui-librespot`. The search doesn’t establish whether those terms appear in the repository; it may not be indexed.
Keep cache pruning outside the player-build timeout.
Cache::new runs inside the spawn_blocking task that startup and native recovery await under player_build_timeout(). The timeout defaults to 45 seconds, although SPOTATUI_STREAMING_INIT_TIMEOUT_SECS can change it. If cache initialization exceeds that finite timeout, startup aborts the player build and falls back to the Web API, while the blocking operation continues. Native recovery can then start another Cache::new on the same directory.
Separate cache initialization from the handshake timeout, and coordinate retries with the running initialization task.
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Review comment at @src/infra/player/streaming.rs at line 697:
Separate the `Cache::new` work launched by `tokio::task::spawn_blocking` from
the `player_build_timeout()` handshake deadline so cache pruning can continue
without aborting player startup. Ensure startup and native recovery reuse or
await the same in-flight initialization for a cache directory rather than
launching concurrent retries; preserve the existing timeout for the player-build
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Tracing both callers confirms the default 45s timeout bounds the player-build wait, but the blocking cache walk can keep running and overlap a later rebuild. The fork fix we are waiting for covers the symlink traversal in the cache walk, which is separate from this timeout and retry coordination. Would you prefer shared cache initialization with a separate handshake deadline in this PR or as a follow-up?
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@niukanen1 I recommend shared cache initialization with a separate handshake deadline in this PR. Enabling pruning makes cache initialization potentially long-running, so timeout and retry coordination belong with the feature.
Keep the fix narrow:
Make startup and native recovery await the same in-flight cache initialization for a cache directory.
Keep that initialization alive if a caller stops waiting.
Start the player-build deadline after cache initialization completes. Preserve the existing handshake timeout.
Add a deterministic regression test with delayed initialization. Verify that a cancelled wait followed by a rebuild does not start a second cache walk.
The fork’s symlink fix remains a separate prerequisite before merging. Fixing symlink traversal does not prevent overlapping initialization, and fixing coordination does not make symlink traversal safe.
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Repo: LargeModGames/spotatui PR: 694
File: src/infra/player/streaming.rs:1280-1280
Timestamp: 2026-10-04T21:09:23.500Z
Learning: In LargeModGames/spotatui's Rust native streaming backend, a failed fast reconnect escalates to a full backend rebuild. Consider this recovery path when assessing commands dropped from the deferred command router in src/infra/player/streaming.rs.
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I'll fix the symlink recursion in init_dir and make a failed prune on init log instead of failing Cache::new in the fork, then bump the pin. One change here: a bad streaming_audio_cache_limit should warn and fall back to no limit, like most settings, not stop boot.
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Closes #957
The native streaming audio cache had no size cap:
streaming_audio_cacheis only an on/off switch, and the librespot cache is built with no limit, so the audio cache grows without bound.This adds a
streaming_audio_cache_limitbehavior key parsed from values like1G,512Mor a bare byte count. Empty and0mean unlimited. The parsed limit is passed to the librespot audio cache size limiter, which prunes the cache to the limit on startup and as new audio is written. The setting applies whenstreaming_audio_cacheis enabled and takes effect after a restart, like the other streaming keys.An invalid value is a fatal config error even when audio caching is disabled, the same policy
auto_update_delayfollows. The limit is for the librespot player; Soloist keeps its own fixed cache cap.Summary by CodeRabbit
0for unlimited.