Soundcloud intermittent JSON parsing error

[davidasunmo]

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Affected version

0.27.2

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Have a bunch of SoundCloud songs in a playlist
2. Play them
3. Wait.

Expected behavior

All Soundcloud songs play without error.

Actual behavior

Eventually one of the songs will play with a duration of exactly 2 seconds (no audio), then skip to the next song, and will get the error notification with JSON parsing error in the stack trace.

Going back to play the offending song will still have it be 2 seconds: only restarting NewPipe allows you to properly reload the song, but eventually another song will cause the error again and have to repeat the process if you want to hear that song.

Other songs are still able to be played even though the one song doesn't load.
The occurrence of this bug is rare.
I have tried brute forcing it by going through my playlist multiple times to make it show up, with WiFi and mobile data, but to no avail yet.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception (stack trace may be a bit scuffed cus idk if I copied it properly)

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Loading failed for [Acceptance]: https://soundcloud.com/slowmagic/acceptance
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_GB
• Service: SoundCloud
• Version: 0.27.2
• OS: Linux Android 9 - 28

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.player.mediasource.FailedMediaSource$StreamInfoLoadException: org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not parse json response
 at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager.lambda$getLoadedMediaSource$7(MediaSourceManager.java:448)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager.$r8$lambda$7wkrzYpwfZdms79okpk8_MCaW4U(MediaSourceManager.java:0)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager$$ExternalSyntheticLambda5.apply(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleOnErrorReturn$OnErrorReturn.onError(SingleOnErrorReturn.java:55)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleMap$MapSingleObserver.onError(SingleMap.java:70)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnError$DoOnError.onError(SingleDoOnError.java:63)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.onError(SingleSubscribeOn.java:73)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle$ToSingleMaybeSubscriber.onError(MaybeToSingle.java:89)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onError(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:94)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.onError(MaybeConcatArray.java:100)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle$FromSingleObserver.onError(MaybeFromSingle.java:82)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess$DoOnSuccess.onError(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:65)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:47)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:16144)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:644)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:65)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:56)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
 at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:301)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
Caused by: org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not parse json response
 at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.soundcloud.SoundcloudParsingHelper.resolveFor(SoundcloudParsingHelper.java:166)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.soundcloud.extractors.SoundcloudStreamExtractor.onFetchPage(SoundcloudStreamExtractor.java:61)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Extractor.fetchPage(Extractor.java:60)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:77)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:72)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:118)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$YTHJjScxCJNO1LTCqs3IKy35iyY(ExtractorHelper.java:0)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda3.call(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
 at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:43)
 ... 23 more
Caused by: com.grack.nanojson.JsonParserException: Expected JSON value, got 0 on line 1, char 0
 at com.grack.nanojson.JsonTokener.createParseException(Unknown Source:0)
 at com.grack.nanojson.JsonParser.currentValue(Unknown Source:0)
 at com.grack.nanojson.JsonParser.parse(Unknown Source:0)
 at com.grack.nanojson.JsonParser$JsonParserContext.from(Unknown Source:0)
 at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.soundcloud.SoundcloudParsingHelper.resolveFor(SoundcloudParsingHelper.java:164)
 ... 31 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 9

Affected device model

Samsung Galaxy S8

Additional information

No response