Pause playlist instead of skipping file on audio driver lost

Expected behavior of the wanted feature

When the audio driver is lost:

[ao/pipewire] Error during playback: Broken pipe, connection error
[ao/pipewire] Stream disconnected, trying to reload...
[ao/pipewire] Could not connect to context '(null)': Host is down
[ao] Failed to initialize audio driver 'pipewire'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.

mpv skips to the next file after failing, which then fails again, which skips to the next file and so on. This behaviour is inconvenient since it messes up with my playlist when my audio driver is killed for any reason, I also have a notification sent to my desktop when changing files, when my audio driver dies, my desktop is filled with notifications.

Is it possible to just pause and try to periodically reconnect instead of skipping files when the connection with the audio driver is lost? through a flag perhaps?

Start by tracing the audio-driver failure path shown in the report and how it causes the playlist to advance. Determine the scope of a pause-and-reconnect option, including how periodic reconnection should behave; done means a lost driver does not skip files and playback can recover when the driver returns.