Windows App 2.213.2.0 Music Playback Issues

[tmurphy2792 21]

Since the last update or two I've been having issues with using Emby Windows app to play music.

Background:
I use emby on my work PC to play music while I'm working. Normally this consists of just picking a playlist and clicking the "shuffle" button for that playlist, then adjusting the emby player volume to a rather low volume. After that I leave it playing in the background (window open on an extra monitor, but not in focus). Occasionally I'll use the basic play/pause and skip buttons on my keyboard as needed, but I haven't noticed any correlation between this and the issues I'm having.

Admittedly because I'm just using it for background music, I don't always notice right away, so I can't confidently say how many songs it gets through. But it is a very regular occurrence for me to realize my music is no longer playing, and when I check the emby app it either paused exactly at the beginning of a song, or the player has closed altogether (leaving my back on that playlist page).
If it is just paused, I can get the next song to start by manually hitting play and it will work like nothing ever happened, but that solution is only temporary until the next pause or crash.
Interestingly enough, I don't recall that I've ever had it happen when I manually skip a song, only when a song finishes and it goes to start the next one.
On some rare occasions it does do the random pause in the middle of a song, but those are much more rare.

The above issue seems to be limited to the Windows app, I don't experience this problem in the browser interface, android app, or roku app.

[Luke 39394]

Hi, what version of windows is this on?

[tmurphy2792 21]

2 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, what version of windows is this on?

Win 11 Pro

Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631

[Luke 39394]

Hi, is it consistent?

[tmurphy2792 21]

16 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, is it consistent?

Depends on your definition.

Consistent enough for me to tell you which song(s) it's going to happen on, no.
Consistent enough that I gave up and just started using the browser interface, yes.

It's probably every 1-4 songs. I don't think I've gotten past 5 or 6 songs in a long time.

[Luke 39394]

Hi, are you still seeing this with the latest update to the Emby Windows app?

[tmurphy2792 21]

On 3/4/2025 at 10:28 PM, Luke said:

Hi, are you still seeing this with the latest update to the Emby Windows app?

Just started testing for the last hour or so, so far it seems to be stable now

[tmurphy2792 21]

On 3/4/2025 at 10:28 PM, Luke said:

Hi, are you still seeing this with the latest update to the Emby Windows app?

So it's definitely happening much less often now, but I just had my first one where playback immediately paused on starting the next song.