Spotify Premium playback fails with track is not available — additional confirmation on openSUSE Leap 16.0

Hi everyone,

I can confirm the same playback issue on a different Linux distribution. I have performed several checks to distinguish an authentication problem from a Spotify audio playback problem.

System environment:

• OS: openSUSE Leap 16.0 (x86_64)
• Strawberry: 1.2.30 (native RPM)
• GStreamer: 1.26.7
• gst-plugin-spotify: 0.15.4, compiled from the official source
• librespot: 0.8.0
• Audio server: PipeWire 1.4.6 with PulseAudio compatibility
• Spotify subscription: Premium

Verification results:

1. Spotify authentication in Strawberry: PASS.
2. Spotify catalogue access and synchronization: PASS.
3. Spotify tracks played in the official Spotify application: PASS.
4. The same tracks played through Strawberry: FAIL.
5. GStreamer successfully detects and loads the locally compiled gst-plugin-spotify 0.15.4.

The recurring error is:

Resource not found.

audio/spotify/src/spotifyaudiosrc/imp.rs(279):
GstSpotifyAudioSrc::create():
track is not available

I also reviewed the source code of the installed plugin. The GStreamer element reports this error after receiving PlayerEvent::Unavailable from the librespot playback layer, which is subsequently propagated as gst::ResourceError::NotFound.

This suggests that authentication and catalogue access are functioning, while the audio retrieval path is failing. The evidence does not yet identify the underlying cause within librespot or Spotify.

Questions for the developers and community:

• Is this now considered a known regression in the librespot 0.8 playback implementation or the GStreamer Spotify plugin?
• Has anyone identified a reproducible fix or a version combination that restores playback?
• Would additional sanitized GStreamer/librespot debug logs help identify the underlying failure?
• Is there an existing upstream issue where affected users should contribute their evidence?

For now, I have chosen to use Strawberry for my local music library and the official Spotify application for streaming.

Thank you for maintaining Strawberry and for any guidance on investigating this issue.