Player is autopausing tracks.

[zoltan-lima]

Hello, my bot worked perfectly fine earlier this week, yet for some reason it seems that 'autopausing' is enabled or is doing so without me wanting it to. I can not find anything on 'autopausing' in the docs so if someone could point me in the direction of disabling it I would be greatful.
Track play normally for about a minute and then there is a state change to 'autopaused' and from there it is another few seconds before the bot disconnects from the vc. If I have multiple tracks in the queue it makes no difference.
Below are the logs acquired from the debug event.

Debug: Queue initialized:
--------------------------------------------------
Core Dependencies
- @discordjs/voice: 0.11.0
- prism-media: 1.3.5
Opus Libraries
- @discordjs/opus: 0.8.0
- opusscript: not found
Encryption Libraries
- sodium-native: not found
- sodium: not found
- libsodium-wrappers: 0.7.11
- tweetnacl: not found
FFmpeg
- version: 5.0.1-static https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
- libopus: yes
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
Loaded Extractors:
None
Debug: Received play request
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"idle","resource":false,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"playing","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":0,"resource":true,"stepTimeout":false}
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"playing","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":56200,"resource":true,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"autopaused","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":56200,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":5,"stepTimeout":false}
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"autopaused","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":56300,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":0,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"idle","resource":false,"stepTimeout":false}

[twlite]

auto paused is a state which indicates that the stream was paused by discordjs/voice itself. This issue seems to be occurring due to some changes made by discord which isnt reflected properly in discordjs/voice yet.

[twlite]

As of right now, we have this solution

import { VoiceConnectionStatus } from '@discordjs/voice';
// or const { VoiceConnectionStatus } = require('@discordjs/voice');

// v6
player.events.on('connection', (queue) => {
    queue.dispatcher.voiceConnection.on('stateChange', (oldState, newState) => {
        if (oldState.status === VoiceConnectionStatus.Ready && newState.status === VoiceConnectionStatus.Connecting) {
            queue.dispatcher.voiceConnection.configureNetworking();
        }
    });
});

// v5
player.on('connectionCreate', (queue) => {
    queue.connection.voiceConnection.on('stateChange', (oldState, newState) => {
        if (oldState.status === VoiceConnectionStatus.Ready && newState.status === VoiceConnectionStatus.Connecting) {
            queue.connection.voiceConnection.configureNetworking();
        }
    })
});

[zoltan-lima]

Thank you for your help!
I tried your solution, but unfortunately it only seems to work twice (I tested it a few times) and then I run into the same error.
Here are updated logs from the debug event:

Debug: Queue initialized:
--------------------------------------------------
Core Dependencies
- @discordjs/voice: 0.11.0
- prism-media: 1.3.5
Opus Libraries
- @discordjs/opus: 0.9.0
- opusscript: not found
Encryption Libraries
- sodium-native: not found
- sodium: not found
- libsodium-wrappers: 0.7.11
- tweetnacl: not found
FFmpeg
- version: 5.0.1-static https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
- libopus: yes
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
Loaded Extractors:
None
Debug: Received play request
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"idle","resource":false,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"playing","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":0,"resource":true,"stepTimeout":false}
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"playing","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":55440,"resource":true,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"autopaused","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":55440,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":5,"stepTimeout":false}
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"autopaused","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":55520,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":1,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"playing","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":55520,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":1,"stepTimeout":false}
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"playing","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":115480,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":1,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"autopaused","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":115480,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":5,"stepTimeout":false}
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"autopaused","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":115540,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":2,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"playing","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":115540,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":2,"stepTimeout":false}
Debug: state change:
from {"status":"playing","missedFrames":0,"playbackDuration":149080,"resource":true,"silencePacketsRemaining":2,"stepTimeout":false}
to {"status":"idle","resource":false,"stepTimeout":false}

It also has the added fault of re-triggering the trackStart event whenever it changes status to 'playing'.
I will make sure to look at discordjs for a fix soon.

[zoltan-lima]

Please read this for an explanation on the problem and the current workaround.

[twlite]

Please read this for an explanation on the problem and the current workaround.

Thank you for sharing, here's updated version of this patch for discord-player if anyone needs it

// v6
player.events.on('connection', (queue) => {
  queue.dispatcher.voiceConnection.on('stateChange', (oldState, newState) => {
    const oldNetworking = Reflect.get(oldState, 'networking');
    const newNetworking = Reflect.get(newState, 'networking');

    const networkStateChangeHandler = (oldNetworkState, newNetworkState) => {
      const newUdp = Reflect.get(newNetworkState, 'udp');
      clearInterval(newUdp?.keepAliveInterval);
    }

    oldNetworking?.off('stateChange', networkStateChangeHandler);
    newNetworking?.on('stateChange', networkStateChangeHandler);
  });
});

// v5
player.on('connectionCreate', (queue) => {
    queue.connection.voiceConnection.on('stateChange', (oldState, newState) => {
      const oldNetworking = Reflect.get(oldState, 'networking');
      const newNetworking = Reflect.get(newState, 'networking');

      const networkStateChangeHandler = (oldNetworkState, newNetworkState) => {
        const newUdp = Reflect.get(newNetworkState, 'udp');
        clearInterval(newUdp?.keepAliveInterval);
      }

      oldNetworking?.off('stateChange', networkStateChangeHandler);
      newNetworking?.on('stateChange', networkStateChangeHandler);
    });
});