Non-available tracks in a Bandcamp album playlist lead to a fatal crash (even the system hangs after it)

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Open this album in NewPipe (it has some tracks listed, but not available): https://feiertagsk.bandcamp.com/album/alchemist

2. Put it on play in the background. Wait for it to play the first song (available) and watch it as it goes for the second track (not available).

3. The app should crash with a “network error” (though it is not a network error).

4. In a Samsung device (Galaxy S23, Android 16, all updates installed), even the system takes the toll, with an unresponsive UI.

Expected behavior

To gracefully skip to the next available track instead of crashing.

Actual behavior

Crashing with a generic error identifier (“network”) and also making the system crash.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_UNSPECIFIED] occurred while playing
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_US
• Service: Bandcamp
• Timestamp: 2025-12-13T22:31:28.026-03:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: Bandcamp
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: [This data point is just too unique in Samsung's devices to be shared around]

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:620)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:273)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:363)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.lang.Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The url is null or empty
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.mediasource.FailedMediaSource.maybeThrowSourceInfoRefreshError(FailedMediaSource.java:129)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.MaskingMediaPeriod.maybeThrowPrepareError(MaskingMediaPeriod.java:156)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.MaskingMediaPeriod.maybeThrowPrepareError(MaskingMediaPeriod.java:154)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1024)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:502)
	... 4 more
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The url is null or empty
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager.lambda$getLoadedMediaSource$7(MediaSourceManager.java:454)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager.$r8$lambda$o9pPAAzp1URPxayOlD1n6iDJBCc(MediaSourceManager.java:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager$$ExternalSyntheticLambda6.apply(R8$$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:317)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:348)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The url is null or empty
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.linkhandler.LinkHandlerFactory.fromUrl(LinkHandlerFactory.java:59)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.StreamingService.getStreamExtractor(StreamingService.java:302)
	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$lambda$bVfA-5gb6gDc8jcAgcGWG5oH0FE(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

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 16 / One UI 8.0

Affected device model

Samsung Galaxy S23

Additional information

No response