Downloaded playlist songs showing wrong length

Issue description:

When I download the 200+ songs of my “Late Night Dance Party” playlist about two-thirds of them show the wrong length. They’re showing as much longer than they are, and usually about double the correct length. Worse, they play for this amount of time, usually adding the extra (silent) time at the end of the song and making the playlist useless.
Downloaded songs are a mix of FLAC and mp3.

UPDATE - This is also a problem with tracks played from the server. And when played, songs with the wrong length play normally (but NOT for the time shown) and a few minutes of silence to the end, but NOT the time shown (for example, Blue Monday will not actually play for 35m30s, but will add 2-3 minutes of silence after the song ends).

Interestingly, I notice that when looking at the original albums of playlist songs they are now showing as the wrong length there, too. Again, this is not the case in PlexAmp - song lengths are all showing correctly there.

Logs:

Upload description: StuPC

Additional information:

Screenshots below show the stupidly long track times. The track times in PlexAmp show correctly as 4m07s and 6m13

Reproduction steps:

Literally just downloading and playing the music files OR playing them from the server.

Media provider:

Plex

Screenshots:

In the logs there’s no downloads and no direct play so I can’t really say much.

All the songs have been transcoded to invalid mp3s. Something that should never happen it should return opus in ogg.

Provide proper logs during a download or direct playback.

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Hi, I’ve saved a log while downloading, while playing from server and while playing downloaded tracks, but couldn’t figure out how to upload the log here again. Link is to the log on my pCloud server. Hope this is OK?

Thanks for quick reponse!

-Stu

How to gather logs and open an issue :wink:

Anyway Symfonium properly request opus but Plex refuses to honor that.

Please provide the plex logs to know why it generate invalid mp3.

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Plex logs, as requested.

Thanks,

Stu

Have uploaded using that link - thanks.

Thanks

Oct 09, 2025 09:10:17.470 [29748] DEBUG - [Req#23d08/Transcode] TranscodeUniversalRequest: using augmented profile Android
Oct 09, 2025 09:10:17.482 [29748] DEBUG - [Req#23d08/Transcode] MDE: Selected protocol http; container: mp3

Stupid Plex enforce it’s internal profiles over what I request and force mp3 …

Will workaround in next release.

In all cases you are connected via Plex.tv proxy so limited to 2Mb and the reason there’s transcoding. Check your network settings if it’s unwanted.

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Fab! Thank you, Tolriq, Look forward to some perfect playback in the next release. :slight_smile:

Best,

Stu