diff --git a/music_assistant/server/providers/snapcast/__init__.py b/music_assistant/server/providers/snapcast/__init__.py
index 28a4e9a30..ec9ea26d8 100644
--- a/music_assistant/server/providers/snapcast/__init__.py
+++ b/music_assistant/server/providers/snapcast/__init__.py
@@ -559,12 +559,17 @@ async def _streamer() -> None:
                 self.mass.players.update(player_id)
                 self._set_childs_state(player_id)
             finally:
-                with suppress(TypeError, KeyError, AttributeError):
-                    await self._snapserver.stream_remove_stream(stream.identifier)
+                await self._delete_current_snapstream(stream, media)
 
         # start streaming the queue (pcm) audio in a background task
         self._stream_tasks[player_id] = asyncio.create_task(_streamer())
 
+    async def _delete_current_snapstream(self, stream: Snapstream, media: PlayerMedia) -> None:
+        with suppress(TypeError, KeyError, AttributeError):
+            if media.duration < 5:
+                await asyncio.sleep(5)
+            await self._snapserver.stream_remove_stream(stream.identifier)
+
     def _get_snapgroup(self, player_id: str) -> Snapgroup:
         """Get snapcast group for given player_id."""
         snap_client_id = self._get_snapclient_id(player_id)
@@ -628,7 +633,9 @@ async def _create_default_stream(self) -> None:
         """Create new stream on snapcast server named default case not exist."""
         all_streams = {stream.name for stream in self._snapserver.streams}
         if "default" not in all_streams:
-            await self._snapserver.stream_add_stream("pipe:///tmp/snapfifo?name=default")
+            await self._snapserver.stream_add_stream(
+                "pipe:///tmp/snapfifo?name=default&sampleformat=48000:16:2"
+            )
 
     def _set_childs_state(self, player_id: str) -> None:
         """Set the state of the child`s of the player."""
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f77d99170..8c3d46507 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ server = [
   "python-slugify==8.0.4",
   "mashumaro==3.13.1",
   "memory-tempfile==2.2.3",
-  "music-assistant-frontend==2.9.9",
+  "music-assistant-frontend==v2.9.10",
   "pillow==11.0.0",
   "unidecode==1.3.8",
   "xmltodict==0.13.0",
diff --git a/requirements_all.txt b/requirements_all.txt
index 04d0a6e31..76bfbead3 100644
--- a/requirements_all.txt
+++ b/requirements_all.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ hass-client==1.2.0
 ifaddr==0.2.0
 mashumaro==3.13.1
 memory-tempfile==2.2.3
-music-assistant-frontend==2.9.9
+music-assistant-frontend==v2.9.10
 orjson==3.10.7
 pillow==11.0.0
 pkce==1.0.3