spotify-player: widen startup device-connect retry window

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

home-manager/fred.nix

@@ -74,24 +74,20 @@ in
         inherit src;
         hash = "sha256-CSZ5sZ+d7Jhi43ipaWXKupYPFgWCbCx4RMTQN8emu9o=";
       };
-      # Always claim playback on our own device at launch, instead of having to
+      # Give initialize_playback's retry loop a much longer window, so we don't
-      # pick it from the device popup every time. Two upstream guards in
+      # have to pick our own device from the popup on every launch. Upstream
-      # client/mod.rs stop that from happening:
+      # retries the transfer 5 times, once a second; our librespot device isn't
-      #   1. initialize_playback skips connecting entirely if any playback
+      # registered with the Spotify backend until ~20s after startup, so all
-      #      already exists — a phone or web player holding a paused playback
+      # five attempts 404 and it gives up:
-      #      is enough.
+      #   Trying to connect to device (id=…)
-      #   2. find_available_device returns the currently *active* device before
+      #   Connection failed (device_id=…): http error: status code 404 Not Found
-      #      it ever gets to the "prefer the integrated device" branch.
+      # The loop breaks on the first success, so a bigger bound costs nothing.
-      # Disabling both leaves the integrated device as the startup target.
+      # The CLI is no help here: `connect --name` resolves names against the Web
-      # The CLI can't do this from the outside: `connect --name` resolves names
+      # API device list, which doesn't contain the integrated device at all.
-      # against the Web API device list, which usually doesn't contain our
-      # freshly registered librespot device at all.
       postPatch = (old.postPatch or "") + ''
         substituteInPlace spotify_player/src/client/mod.rs \
-          --replace-fail "if state.player.read().playback.is_some() {" \
+          --replace-fail "                for _ in 0..5 {" \
-                         "if false {" \
+                         "                for _ in 0..60 {"
-          --replace-fail "if let Some(d) = devices.iter().find(|d| d.is_active) {" \
-                         "if let Some(d) = devices.iter().find(|d| false && d.is_active) {"
       '';
     });
     settings = {