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AirPlay not longer working since update

Taxicletter

November 15, 2020 13:23

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Today I updated Hifiberry OS to 20201101. I can't stream my music anymore from my Mac (MacBook Air, Big Sur, 11.0.1 - 20B29) of iPhone 7 (iOs 14.2).

I restarted a few times, also "Power Off" and unplug (Raspberry Pi 3 and AMP) and re-plug.

 

To clarify: I see my Hifiberry and I can select it as output source, but then nothing happens. After a while the music stops playing (meaning the play-symbol changes to pause, but nothing played anyway).

 

And also: somehow the volume changes when I try to stream through AirPlay (that was always the case: when I switch from radio tot airplay, for a brief moment the volume increases on the radio, before switching to AirPay).

And I can see the song I try to play with AirPlay in the Hifiberry screen on my phone or on the website.

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  HiFiBerry team November 15, 2020 14:52

  Are other sources working?

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  steamfan November 15, 2020 15:16

  I encounter a similar behaviour: I have to hit the play buttons two or three times on Mac OS X10.15or iOS 13 to get the song or podcast playes via Airplay.

   

  Additinally sometimes, but often, the album art is not updated on Hifiberry (RPi 3B+ with AMP2).

   

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  Taxicletter November 15, 2020 16:09

  Yes, I can play radio fine.

   

  After the reaction of steamfan, I tried again and now it connected and audio is comming from my HifiBerry.

  So that's the trick: keep on trying :-)

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  Taxicletter November 16, 2020 06:49

  Today I couldn't connect again. Radio plays fine, trying with MacBook or iPhone to stream music doesn't work. I tried like 20 times.

  The volume goes up a little and you can see the song that should be playing on the interface. Also pressing play there doesn't work, the volume goes up a little, but that's it.

  I tried with an old android phone and Hifi Cast. No luck either: "Timeout waiting for Play action to complete". After restarting Hifiberry OS, DLNA started playing immediately, AirPlay still didn't work.

   

  Interesting: I forgot about the music and an hour later, when I closed the uPnP-app on my Android-phone, the music that I tried to play with my MacBook started to play. So it seems my AirPlay-music was in some sort of queue.

  Edited by Taxicletter November 16, 2020 07:47
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  HiFiBerry team November 16, 2020 08:19

  Trying to reproduce it here, but can't see this happen on my test system. There have been a few changes that might help. Can you try the current experimental release
  
  /opt/hifiberry/bin/update --experimental

   

   

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  Taxicletter November 16, 2020 09:24

  Thank you.

  I will try that update.

  (I guess I have to SSH into my HifiBerry to do that? I'm working now, I'll try it later!)

  Let you know if it helped.

   

  Am I the only one with this problem? @steamfan, did you test this more?

  Edited by Taxicletter November 16, 2020 09:30
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  steamfan November 16, 2020 09:40

  Hello,

  yes, I did some tests. Basically I'm using my system and check for unexpected behaviour. That#s what I encountered yesterday:

   

  • streaming a podcast from an iOS device with iOS 12.4.8
  • the first podcast ended
  • the next podcast was displayed on the HifiBerry device but did not start
  • I switched to DLNA, streaming fro NAS to HifiBerry, control point (8player.app on iOS 12.4.8) 
  • the selected title needed three or four tries to start (hit play button three or four times)
  • the title started to play, eve the next ones (queueing)
  • the album cover and title description where not updated, Hifiberry still displayed album cover and title from the podcast that did not start to play

  Kind regards

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  Taxicletter November 17, 2020 08:34

  Hi,

  The experimental update seems to work. I could immediately stream music from Music (MacBook) and Bandcamp (iPhone). Info and album art seem OK.

  I didn't try podcasts, since I only listen them while on the road (with headphones). I'll try that later maybe and let you know if something goes wrong.

  Thanks for the help!

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  HiFiBerry team November 17, 2020 08:35

  Ok, might have been a bug in the pause script in the current release. You can just stay with the experimental until the next release if this works for you.

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  Taxicletter November 17, 2020 08:36

  OK, will do that.

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  HiFiBerry team November 17, 2020 11:31

  @Steamfan: Did you also try this?

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  steamfan November 17, 2020 11:49

  Currently I didn’t try it. I wanted to wait for the official release,

  I can stream music and can live with the sometimes wrong cover art.

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  HiFiBerry team November 17, 2020 11:50

  That's fine.

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  steamfan November 17, 2020 11:50

  Or shall I give it a try within the next few days?

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  HiFiBerry team November 17, 2020 11:52

  As you wish. We usually use the experimental release internally. It's usually quite stable, but there might always be bugs that we didn't see.
  You can always return to the previous release via the GUI. 

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  Wale Siegenthaler October 20, 2021 10:09

  Hi! My HifiBerry OS (Raspberry Pi 3 / Beocreate 4 Channel) won't play Airplay from MacOS 11.6. There is never any sound and the connection drops after some seconds

  I updated to: /opt/hifiberry/bin/update --experimental

  Which did not really help: I only heard jittered music with airplay. Spotify Connect didn't work anymore. 

  Reverted back.