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The topic says it all. My roku ultra updated to the 7.5.x update and /stream.mp3, or stream.mp4 w/AAC, or stream.flac, etc seems to cause the roAudioPlayer to eventually stop responding. Shortly after this, the music stops completely and the roku hangs, then after a minute or so the roku ultra reboots.

I reverted to the 7.22 firmware through the secret screen update to resolve this on my roku ultra. I experience this on my roku3 too which is also on firmware 7.5.x, but it is happen all the time on the roku ultra. Has anybody else experienced this? This is a major show stopper type of bug. One that makes you want to smash the roku. Haw. firmware bugs annoy me.

But really, can this get addressed please? Thank you.

[renojim]

Are you loading the ContentList with a boat-load of entries? If so, it's a known v7.5 bug. The workaround is to keep a separate list and just load one song at a time and wait for the isFullResult event to load the next song manually.

-JT

[Komag]

How many are we talking about? My game uses roAudioPlayer, but lately I've only been testing with a 3-track loop, haven't had any issues like this. Is it known whether it takes 20 or 50 or 5?

[renojim]

According to RokuDale, it's something like 50, but right under that post is someone that says the MainSqueeze channel doesn't like more than 15 or so songs in a playlist. I'm assuming the MainSqueeze channel just uses the playlist to create a ContentList that gets set in an roAudioPlayer. I'm guessing your 3 or so will be just fine. I can tell you from my experience that the box crashes within a few seconds of calling Play() if you have a ContentList of hundreds of items. I haven't tried to find the limit that works or doesn't and I don't know if the time it takes to crash is dependent on the number of items in the ContentList.

-JT

[JohnBasedow]

How were you able to revert? I went to the secret screen, and it just "upgraded" me again to 7.5.

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"JohnBasedow" wrote:
How were you able to revert? I went to the secret screen, and it just "upgraded" me again to 7.5.

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I did this immediately after the 7.5 update and I realized it borked audio, within 15 minutes.

[JohnBasedow]

Yea, that's the screen. It just installs 7.5 again, that stinks. Thanks for the response.

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Follow Up:

Mysteriously, this is now resolved. My ultra with firmware 7.51 build 4095 no longer suffers this problem. No mention from roku this was ever fixed. Thank you whoever fixed it. 🙂