App will sometimes crash upon opening

This is an issue that was in the apognu version too though I can't remember if I had reported it through there or the matrix channel.

Behaviour:

After some use, I force closed the app to try and force another issue that is still present. This resulted in the app disappearing each time you tried to load it. It will briefly show on screen before closing. The only way I have been able to get the app to open again is to clear the app cache. This unfortunate clears the log too.

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Thanks for reporting this issue. Currently we don't have a lot of specific log statements in the application. I will try to add statements during the next time, maybe we can get to the bottom of this more easily then.

I have matlog on my phone with it enabled for full access. I see a few exoplayer errors in the logs which may be related? Hope this helps.

logs-2021-08-10-14-05-07.zip

Without understanding the problem, yet: if this is indead related to some exoplayer issue as the log suggests, there's another issue to upgrade exoplayer to a more recent version: #65 (closed) Maybe upgrading will also help here.

I searched for the error and found this issue on the closed Otter issues: https://github.com/apognu/otter/issues/44

It seems @Thovi98 had this problem before.

Yes indeed, it was my issue. Since apognu compiled himself an Exoplayer extension, I didn’t encounter this bug anymore (https://github.com/apognu/otter/issues/44#issuecomment-643671101) But at that time I had Flac files. Now I converted them in mp3s because of the size of the files. I don’t have this bug in this app.

Hmm, I might add that no actual app crash prompt appears. It's silent. Even when force stopping the app, until the app cache is cleared, tapping the icon to launch the player results in it briefly appearing on screen before disappearing with no further prompts. But yes, I hope the newer ExoPlayer will resolve the issue.

Edit: this is specific to trying to bring the app back into focus or starting it fresh, not when resuming tracks.

I'm having similar issue, but it's closer to https://github.com/apognu/otter/issues/44 than to that.

There's a video:

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video_2021-08-25_21-02-29

There's log file done by adb logcat nkwhale.ffa.de:V '*:S' | tee ffa.log:
ffa.log

It looks like one of latest builds broken it for me as even clear data doesn't help.

0.0.1-143 seems to be the latest working version for me

And when I reinstalled 0.0.1-143, got playback working, updated to latest version now issue is 1:1 IDENTICAL as in this issue - app fails to start at all. It looks like this is the same problem.

My music is flac too.

Latest log with only start of app:
ffa.log

I was able to reproduce with a flac file. Downgrading the flac extension to the previous version helps, it seems the new extension version is not compatible with our exoplayer main version. I don't think this is connected to the original topic though, as the upgrade happened only a few days ago. Will create a separate ticket to keep track.

mentioned in issue #84 (closed)

I have made progress with upgrading ExoPlayer (#65 (closed)), there's an open MR where you can download an apk to test, as long as it's not merged: !77 (merged)

For me it works good, no crash to this moment.

Just to check back, is this issue still a thing for you? If not, I would close it.

mentioned in issue #125