Sometimes player hangs at the end of episode

App version: 3.4.1 from Google Play

Android version: 14

Device model:
Samsung S23 Ultra

Expected behaviour:
Flawless playback

Current behaviour:
Sometimes (not often, like once a day) playback of current episode hangs at the very end. When it happens, a fraction of sound is looped and is getting louder and louder. In such a case I press skip button and then it plays another episode, no problem. So it’s not very big problem.
It started to happen on 3.4. I was waiting for new release because i saw a lot of different problems in this release, unfortunately this small bug didn’t got fixed.
Does it happen to anybody else, or maybe it’s something in my phone?

First occurred: (e.g. about x days/weeks ago)
3.4

Steps to reproduce:
very hard to reproduce, as it happens rarely

I’ve never heard that or heard of it from others, but it sure sounds frustrating.

I have the exact same issue.
Sometimes, at the end of an episode, AntennaPod does not pass to the following one and a fraction of second is looped. In my case the sound does not get louder.
It also start on V. 3.4.1.
I also have a Samsung S23 / Android 14 / One UI Version 6.1

I had a deeper look and would like to add this:

1- When getting the issue, (when hearing the “micro” loop at the end of the track), the time continue to go ahead. The time is not looping.

2- It is not random but some podcast produce the loop issue others not. When I re-download a podcast with the loop, I get the loop again.
Same conclusion with podcast with no-loop

Here two examples of podcast:
That one has the loop issue: https://audio.audiomeans.fr/file/CwypghQEGk/81725226-bdd3-4876-a8fb-366ed20c09f7.mp3?_=1725862083

That one does not have the loop issue (take out the first "):
"https://rf.proxycast.org/9ea84690-7e6c-4759-8332-ddca690cf22f/23487-09.09.2024-ITEMA_23854184-2024F49085S0253-22.mp3

Let me know if you need any other example of podcast or other tests.

I can confirm a few things:

  • Increasing volume doesn’t happen lately, maybe one of the latest versions fixed it
  • If episode loops, it loops always. Only small fraction of my podcasts loops. I have many podcasts extracted from YT using Podsync, I will be checking if it happens only for those from YT, or others. But I suspect it’s audio format/codec dependent.

Issue not solved with version 3.5.0 .