Squeezelite player is missing in action!

[rofo69]

I have two identical ESP21-A!s players flashed with squeezelite that have been happily connected to music assistant for months

I had a power outage this morning and only 1 of the 2 players has reconnected and the device and entities for the other are gone, and the player is missing from music assistant.

However, in the logs I see this:-

2026-03-31 19:55:52.500 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player (type protocol) registered: ap345f45267028/squeezelite-kitchen
2026-03-31 19:55:52.500 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.AirPlay.bridge.ap345f45267028] Sendspin bridge registered for squeezelite-kitchen (client_id=spb_345f45267028)
2026-03-31 19:55:52.501 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.airplay.bridge_manager] Sendspin bridge created for squeezelite-kitchen
2026-03-31 19:55:52.505 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player (type protocol) registered: spb_345f45267028/squeezelite-kitchen (AirPlay)

But the squeezelite-kitchen player never returns!
Its identical cousin, configured in exactly the same way, connects and plays without issue.

So to test a bit further, I disable squeezelite as a player provider, then re-enabled it. Deleted the working player (name squeelite-lounge) and restarted both players.

Lounge immediately came back and was disccovered again, kitchen... still nothing.

This is the log during that time:-

2026-03-31 20:03:34.905 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player unavailable: squeezelite-kitchen
2026-03-31 20:03:34.905 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player unavailable: squeezelite-lounge
2026-03-31 20:03:45.285 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.Universal Player] Cleaning up stale protocol config cc:7b:5c:f9:c7:60 from universal player upcc7b5cf9c760
2026-03-31 20:03:45.287 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player removed: squeezelite-lounge
2026-03-31 20:03:56.617 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant] Loaded player provider Squeezelite
2026-03-31 20:03:56.762 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant] Loaded player provider Squeezelite
2026-03-31 20:04:00.099 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.Squeezelite] Player unknown device: 34:5f:45:26:70:28 connected
2026-03-31 20:04:00.105 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player (type protocol) registered: 34:5f:45:26:70:28/unknown device: 34:5f:45:26:70:28
2026-03-31 20:04:00.144 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.Squeezelite] Player unknown device: cc:7b:5c:f9:c7:60 connected
2026-03-31 20:04:00.148 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player (type protocol) registered: cc:7b:5c:f9:c7:60/unknown device: cc:7b:5c:f9:c7:60
2026-03-31 20:04:00.288 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.Universal Player] Creating universal player upcc7b5cf9c760 with protocol players: ['spb_cc7b5cf9c760', 'apcc7b5cf9c760', 'cc:7b:5c:f9:c7:60']
2026-03-31 20:04:00.297 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player (type player) registered: upcc7b5cf9c760/squeezelite-lounge
2026-03-31 20:04:40.165 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player unavailable: squeezelite-kitchen
2026-03-31 20:04:50.159 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player unavailable: squeezelite-lounge
2026-03-31 20:04:50.545 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.Squeezelite] Player unknown device: 34:5f:45:26:70:28 connected
2026-03-31 20:04:50.552 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player (type protocol) registered: 34:5f:45:26:70:28/unknown device: 34:5f:45:26:70:28
2026-03-31 20:04:55.329 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.Squeezelite] Player unknown device: cc:7b:5c:f9:c7:60 connected
2026-03-31 20:04:55.336 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.players] Player (type protocol) registered: cc:7b:5c:f9:c7:60/unknown device: cc:7b:5c:f9:c7:60

Not sure if its relevant, but if I disable and re-enable airplay, I get a toaster message message saying 'nonunqiuename exception' (I've tried renaming the player... didnt help).

34:5f:45:26:70:28 is the mac address of the problem device.

Thoughts ?

[rofo69]

Turns out it was (I think) a corrupted MA database. Reinstalling the addon and the missing player immediately reappeared.

[electron23]

Same here. Reinstalling MA with purging data will fix the issue until squeezelite instances are restarted. In my setup I use an seperate server with multiple squeezelite instances (aprox. 13 systemd services). When I restart the server completely, random squeezelite players disapear.