Originally created by @lukethehawk on GitHub (Oct 12, 2023).
Describe the issue
After the upgrade to iOS 17 I experienced a problem, when I push the play button the stream wont start, it remain stuck. I'm connected, I tried with wifi and 4G but it wont start the stream. No prob with the web app through safari I tried to reinstall completely the app, app v. 0.9.66 srv. v 2.4.3 (docker)
Steps to reproduce the issue
After upgrade to iOS 17. Press play doesn’t work
Audiobookshelf version
app v. 0.9.66 srv. v 2.4.3 (docker)
How are you running audiobookshelf?
Docker
Originally created by @lukethehawk on GitHub (Oct 12, 2023).
### Describe the issue
After the upgrade to iOS 17 I experienced a problem, when I push the play button the stream wont start, it remain stuck. I'm connected, I tried with wifi and 4G but it wont start the stream. No prob with the web app through safari I tried to reinstall completely the app, app v. 0.9.66 srv. v 2.4.3 (docker)
### Steps to reproduce the issue
1. After upgrade to iOS 17. Press play doesn’t work
### Audiobookshelf version
app v. 0.9.66 srv. v 2.4.3 (docker)
### How are you running audiobookshelf?
Docker
adam
added the bug label 2026-04-24 23:35:45 +02:00
Can you check if this is transcoding or direct play? You will see that at the top of the audio player when you open it up full screen.
Is this only happening with that one audiobook or others?
Can you update your server to v2.4.4 so we can be sure this wasn't fixed on the server-side?
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2023):
Can you check if this is transcoding or direct play? You will see that at the top of the audio player when you open it up full screen.
Is this only happening with that one audiobook or others?
Can you update your server to v2.4.4 so we can be sure this wasn't fixed on the server-side?
Also, that audio file just may not play on iOS. You can test that by downloading it and trying to play it with another app (not VLC).
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2023):
Also, that audio file just may not play on iOS. You can test that by downloading it and trying to play it with another app (not VLC).
Updated to 2.4.4 nothing changed.
After some test I found that the problem is only with that book.
At the top of the audio player I see DIRECT
thanks
@lukethehawk commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2023):
Updated to 2.4.4 nothing changed.
After some test I found that the problem is only with that book.
At the top of the audio player I see DIRECT
thanks
Can you share the ffprobe output of that audio file?
You can find that by using the web client here
Then in the top right
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2023):
Can you share the ffprobe output of that audio file?
You can find that by using the web client here

Then in the top right
I'm not seeing anything unusual. I'm guessing it's some encoding issue that I could only confirm if I had the audio file.
You can try re-encoding it
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Nov 14, 2023):
I'm not seeing anything unusual. I'm guessing it's some encoding issue that I could only confirm if I had the audio file.
You can try re-encoding it
I'm not seeing anything unusual. I'm guessing it's some encoding issue that I could only confirm if I had the audio file. You can try re-encoding it
Ok, I'll try re-encoding.
Thanks for your help
@lukethehawk commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2023):
> I'm not seeing anything unusual. I'm guessing it's some encoding issue that I could only confirm if I had the audio file. You can try re-encoding it
Ok, I'll try re-encoding.
Thanks for your help
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Originally created by @lukethehawk on GitHub (Oct 12, 2023).
Describe the issue
After the upgrade to iOS 17 I experienced a problem, when I push the play button the stream wont start, it remain stuck. I'm connected, I tried with wifi and 4G but it wont start the stream. No prob with the web app through safari I tried to reinstall completely the app, app v. 0.9.66 srv. v 2.4.3 (docker)
Steps to reproduce the issue
Audiobookshelf version
app v. 0.9.66 srv. v 2.4.3 (docker)
How are you running audiobookshelf?
Docker
@lukethehawk commented on GitHub (Oct 12, 2023):
https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/assets/98876950/ab750d4c-c605-40ad-8eba-80a1f8e7409a
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2023):
Can you check if this is transcoding or direct play? You will see that at the top of the audio player when you open it up full screen.
Is this only happening with that one audiobook or others?
Can you update your server to v2.4.4 so we can be sure this wasn't fixed on the server-side?
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2023):
Also, that audio file just may not play on iOS. You can test that by downloading it and trying to play it with another app (not VLC).
@lukethehawk commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2023):
Updated to 2.4.4 nothing changed.
After some test I found that the problem is only with that book.
At the top of the audio player I see DIRECT
thanks
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Oct 13, 2023):
Can you share the ffprobe output of that audio file?

You can find that by using the web client here
Then in the top right
@lukethehawk commented on GitHub (Oct 14, 2023):
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Nov 14, 2023):
I'm not seeing anything unusual. I'm guessing it's some encoding issue that I could only confirm if I had the audio file.
You can try re-encoding it
@lukethehawk commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2023):
Ok, I'll try re-encoding.
Thanks for your help