Android Libspotify Image Loading SIGSEGV

Question

So this particular libspotify error has me a little stumped. My app basically loads a users playlists, and allows users to go into those playlists at which time it populates the track data.

So the problem lies in the function:

sp_image* image = sp_image_create(session, image_id);

(after calling) const byte* image_id = sp_album_cover(album, SP_IMAGE_SIZE_SMALL);

Now this works fine some of the time, but quite often it will pop up with a 'Corrupt memory passed to dlfree(), SIGSEGV' error, which cause. So first thing I looked for is a memory error but theres plenty of free memory and there are no null pointers when this occurs. The call occurs from with the library to libc.so so its much deeper into the library than i can access.

It obviously has something to do with memory but its odd that it could happen after loading 10 tracks or after 400 tracks and stranger yet, from my testing devices, it only happens on the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 and not on the Galaxy S3, or HTC sensation. First thing that springs to mind is the fact that the N4 & N7 are Qualcomm devices but thats all i have to go on, and probably has nothing to do with anything!

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

It's probably libspotify's fault, not yours. This library has never been particularly stable on Android (in fact, Spotify still calls it "beta"), however they will be replacing it soon with a new library similar to the Spotify iOS SDK.

My advice to you would be to not use libspotify unless you are under pressure to ship something right away. The new SDK will likely solve many of the headaches familiar to developers working with libspotify on Android.

Edit: The new Spotify Android SDK is out! You should use it instead of libspotify, it will save you much headache.