App keeps crashing or returns to previous menu after trying to play any track with a cover image

[ShadyMedic]

Checklist

• I can reproduce the bug with the latest version given here.
• I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - to which I could contribute my information.
• I made sure that there are no existing discussions - open or closed - to which I could contribute my information. No I didn't, because the links are dead.
• I have read the FAQs inside the app (Menu -> About -> FAQs) and my problem isn't listed.
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• This issue contains only one bug.
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Affected app version

1.2.3

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 15 / RisingOS Revived 6.3

Affected device model

Moto Edge 30 Neo

How did you install the app?

GitHub releases

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Install the app (I did so from F-droid, after trying to reproduce with the newest version, I did so from newest the GitHub release – bug persisted).
2. Open it, grant any permissions needed.
3. Everything looks as it should (as far as I remember) – menus works etc. Tracks from the Folders and Artists tabs can be played normally.
4. Go to the Tracks tab and try to play any track from there. Or go to the Playlists tab, open All tracks and try to play any track from there. Or try to play a song from the Albums menu.

Expected behavior

Playing tracks from the Tracks tab or All tracks playlist should work just like from the other tabs and not crash the app.

Actual behavior

(continuation of the list from Steps to reproduce the bug)
5. App crashes (usually in case of the Tracks tab) or returns back to the previous activity (usually in case of the All tracks playlist or the Albums tab).
6. Try to reopen the app in case of a crash.
7. If there was a song playing before the crash (from one of the other three tabs), the app stays open, the last playing song is displayed in the bottom bar as paused.
8. If there was no song playing before the crash, the app crashes immediately again.
9. The only way to recover from this is to delete all application data or reinstall the app. After that, the app starts behaving as after step 1.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

MusicPlayer-Issue-compressed.mp4

Additional information

Quite interestingly, some tracks play just fine from the "All tracks" playlist – compare the attempt to play "26-12-2" at 0:52 of the video with the attempt to play "20250707_094427.m4a" at 0:56 of the video. This m4a file is a recording created by Fossify Voice Recorder app, the other songs were downloaded tracks.

[naveensingh]

Please share the full path where those files are stored.

Also, if you are familiar with ADB, it would help if you could capture and share a crash log.

No, I didn't, because the links are dead.

Working on that.

[ShadyMedic]

All of the files I tried to play in the video are stored in /storage/emulated/0/Music/[ALBUM NAME]/, except for the one m4a recording that is in /storage/emulated/0/Recordings/.

I have ADB installed, but I only ever used it to paste commands found on the internet, I'm not really familiar with how to use it to get a crash log of a specific app. But if you can point me to a tutorial or write me commands to execute, I'll be glad to help.

[naveensingh]

Here are the basic steps:

• Connect the phone to your computer
• Run adb logcat > logs.txt
• Open Fossify Music Player and crash it
• Stop capture with CTRL+C and share the logs.txt file here

[ShadyMedic]

Okay, this should be the part that is interesting to you, right?

https://paste.nolog.cz/?37e45c178d6b7535#8H7pkukmJVxwVpAsEt3tvaBhqpgNq7yPGL9WtTC8debZ
(edit: updated the link to a non-expiring one)

[naveensingh]

Yep, that's all, thanks!

[jguegel]

Solution idea:
MediaItem.kt -> check if ArtworkUri is not blank:

fun Track.toMediaItem(): MediaItem {
    val notBlankArtworkUri = coverArt.takeIf {
        it.isNotBlank() }?.toUri()
    return buildMediaItem(
        mediaId = mediaStoreId.toString(),
        title = title,
        album = album,
        artist = artist,
        genre = genre,
        mediaType = MediaMetadata.MEDIA_TYPE_MUSIC,
        trackNumber = trackId,
        discNumber = discNumber,
        sourceUri = getUri(),
        artworkUri = notBlankArtworkUri,
        track = this
    )
}

Because somehow at android.media.session.MediaSession.setMetadata(MediaSession.java:512 can not use the Uri of Metadata according to the error log you posted.
But i am unable to reproduce the issue locally, this is purely based on log analysis

[ShadyMedic]

Solution idea: MediaItem.kt -> check if ArtworkUri is not blank:
Because somehow at android.media.session.MediaSession.setMetadata(MediaSession.java:512 can not use the Uri of Metadata according to the error log you posted. But i am unable to reproduce the issue locally, this is purely based on log analysis

I just checked and can confirm, that tracks that do not have a cover image play just fine, while those with an album art crash the app (or the activity).

[ShadyMedic]

Also I now see that the tracks with a cover image fail to play even from the Folders tab and Artists tab. Renaming the issue to make it clear that the tab from which a track is played plays no role in this.