No sound suddenly -- everything appears normal, nothing changed

[chrisbenincasa]

Today, after changing nothing, I was suddenly unable to get any sound output from Raspotify. I'm not sure what might have changed... here's what I've tried so far and some facts about my system:

Facts:

Linux apollo 6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr  3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian

`-- Ouput of aplay -l` --

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi], device 0: HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 [HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

`-- Ouput of aplay -L --`

``` null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) iec958 IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output default hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi, HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi, HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 Hardware device with all software conversions sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi, HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 Default Audio Device iec958:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi, HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output dmix:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi, HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 Direct sample mixing device ```

Things I've tried

• System restart
• Reinstalling Raspotify
• Connecting from various clients (iPhone, iPad, etc)

Things I've determined:

• I don't think this is an audio device issue because:
  • I also run Plexamp headless on this device which works flawlessly
  • I manually started a separate instance of librespot with librespot -n "HelloWorld" -b 160 -v, connected, and audio was played
• I don't think this is an mDNS / discovery issue because of my success with running librespot directly (and seeing similar unreadable packet warnings in that run)
• Verbose logs look normal from Raspotify when "playing" music, just no output at all...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Love Raspotify and would really love to get it working again.