audiobooks stop playing after a couple of minutes

[codegrizzl]

Since a couple of days ago, audiobooks stop playing after a couple of minutes. It does not matter if they are downloaded or streamed. The stop seams kind of consistent, I have not timed it for now. As it stands I can currently not listen to an audiobook.

Format of my audiobooks is m4b.

This error does not happen with podcasts. But they are stored in mp3, if the error is connected to the file format.

I am currently at the newest version 2.5.1

Does someone have the same issue?

[rasmuslos]

I think this is caused by checkPlayerTimeout because it assumes that some variable is nil when it isn’t.

[rasmuslos]

Possibly related to #178

[codegrizzl]

Thnaks for the fast reply. I can’t say if these two issues are related. I never used a sleep timer function. As the player not only pauses running playbooks but showing a blank it seems like the application crashing which could happen with a nil value beeing used. Gesendet von Outlook für iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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[rasmuslos]

What version of iOS are you using?

[codegrizzl]

I am on an iPhone 11 with iOS 18 running. Is there a possibility to turn on logs? Gesendet von Outlook für iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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[rasmuslos]

I have an idea for debugging this, but we should make sure that the app doesn't crash first. Does the playback just stop (the app stays open) or does it crash?

[codegrizzl]

I tried to recreate this issue by having my device turned always on, so I see the app crashing. But I could not recreate this issue since. As you didn’t put out a new version, I don’t know why this is not happening anymore. Before it happend with three different files over a period of two days without it working. I cannot tell what changed. I will come back if I can recreate this error again. Thanks for the app. I like the quick UI and minimalistic design.

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[rasmuslos]

I think this is caused by ProgressEntity's being modified on background threads, most likely when the device is busy with doing other things. I am currently reworking the logic, but it takes time...

[zagahr]

I have the same issue — the app crashes after a few minutes, regardless of whether it is open or running in the background.

[rasmuslos]

Check with 2.5.2 once it is released

[rasmuslos]

#189

[fmartingr]

I know this is closed in favor of #189, but just giving more information about this specific issue that I'm also experiencing: in my case this seems to only happen in background, after a few minutes (unsure if it's fixed or not, sorry), but so far if I have the application open it does not crash.

[rasmuslos]

This stuff is really annoying to debug, because of that reason, but I still think I this is caused by a concurrency issue. If you leave the app in the foreground swift schedules most of the work on the main thread, but if you put it in the background some things (like updating a progress entity) may happen on some background thread.

[fmartingr]

This stuff is really annoying to debug, because of that reason, but I still think I this is caused by a concurrency issue. If you leave the app in the foreground swift schedules most of the work on the main thread, but if you put it in the background some things (like updating a progress entity) may happen on some background thread.

If I can help in any way, let me know. I use ShelfPlayer almost on a daily basis. Maybe running a TestFlight build with more debugging information or something like that.