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Silent Tracks Not Advancing - BooBounder - 2025-04-16
I have "blank" songs that when played do not advance to the next track.
My songs are in FLAC format on my NAS. Some albums are incomplete. For these, I insert FLAC files of silence I created in Audacity that are about 1/4 of a second in length. These placeholder files only contain metadata to show a track is missing.
When I use Jellyfin through a Roku, those blank tracks load (there's a progress bar), may or may not play (hard to tell), and then the player does not advance to the next track.
I'm not even sure what to ask. Something like, is there something I need to do in creating those files so that Jellyfin will play them on a Roku (sort of like a line break or EOF in a text file)? Or is there a minimum file length?
FWIW: the files do advance when I use Jellyfin on the browser I use to maintain my NAS.
RE: Silent Tracks Not Advancing - TheDreadPirate - 2025-04-16
Maybe make them longer? Regardless, this is probably a bug or something. Submit a github issue.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku/issues
However, I do see this issue from the Roku maintainer.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku/issues/170
Maybe not advancing is by design? But you don't mention an error pop up so I'm not sure it's the same.
RE: Silent Tracks Not Advancing - 1hitsong - 2025-04-16
My guess is the .25 second tracks are buffering, loading, and completing before the Roku media player has the event watchers in place to detect the track is finished. It's a race to the finish line.
My shortest track is 2 seconds and I've not experienced this issue before.
RE: Silent Tracks Not Advancing - BooBounder - 2025-04-18
Changing to 2 seconds long seems to have solved the problem.
The Roku's display also changes with the longer tracks. It shows one progress screen which quickly loads left to right, then a second as it starts playing.
With the 2 second tracks that second screen advances halfway, then the whole way, and then the next track starts. With the 0.2 second tracks, that second screen never showed up at all.
Going to experiment and see how short I can get those silence tracks; 2 seconds is too much like the way ripped and re-recorded CDs sounded.
RE: Silent Tracks Not Advancing - 1hitsong - 2025-04-18
> Going to experiment and see how short I can get those silence tracks
Neat. Post back your results.
RE: Silent Tracks Not Advancing - BooBounder - 2025-04-18
0.3 seconds is enough. Mark this one as solved!