# Error while playing media for recently added music **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Tags:** handled\ **Created:** [August 28, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087 "2024-08-28T12:15:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/armourarsenal/32/10649_2.png) [@ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/u/ArmourArsenal)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087/1 "2024-08-28T12:15:22Z")
## Issue description: When i try to play a recently added FLAC file it shows me an error “Error playing media, ensure that your player supports it”. It only happens for one song and when i try to play that song it keeps loading and gives me that error. If i play any other song while the error song is loading it throws the same error for other songs too. If i stop the song and start fresh, rest of the songs play properly except that one song. ## Logs: Upload description: Log description: Error-28AUG24-debuglog ## Additional information:   It has started happening recently and I never had this issue pop up before.   ## Reproduction steps:   1.) Upload the file in Google Drive and sync it in Symfonium. 2.) Play the song and it throws an error.   ## Media provider: Google Drive ## Screenshots:   ![Screenshot 1](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fd8edcc5e31ef3d0e4926361267670ed3326b28a.jpeg)     ---
**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087/2 "2024-08-28T12:26:08Z")
That media seems invalid: `First frame does not start with sync code.` I’ve asked Google if the error is normal or not. ---
**Author:** ![ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/armourarsenal/32/10649_2.png) [@ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/u/ArmourArsenal)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087/3 "2024-08-28T12:53:34Z")
Thanks for the help! ---
**Author:** ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 11:19am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087/4 "2024-08-30T11:19:28Z")
So since it was assigned by Google to someone who usually don’t work on the issues, I’ve made more tests and the file is indeed invalid. ```auto flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details. Teminite - Stardust In The Universe.flac: *** Got error code 0:FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC Teminite - Stardust In The Universe.flac: ERROR while decoding data state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ABORTED ``` So there’s very little chance that they workaround that, like some other plays maybe do. Closing this as invalid file. ---
**Author:** ![ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/armourarsenal/32/10649_2.png) [@ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/u/ArmourArsenal)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 11:37am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087/5 "2024-08-30T11:37:39Z")
Thank you for your help! I have been following the Github repo notifications out of curiosity 😛 I will try to modify or experiment with the file and see if it works and report back here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/armourarsenal/32/10649_2.png) [@ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/u/ArmourArsenal)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087/6 "2024-08-30T13:34:51Z")
I re downloaded the song and it fixed it. Also I tried to convert to FLAC again using audacity but it didn’t detect it, anyways, the problem is solved ---
**Author:** ![655321](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/655321/32/1975_2.png) [@655321](http://support.symfonium.app/u/655321)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 9:13am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087/7 "2024-08-31T09:13:26Z")
> [@ArmourArsenal](#): > > convert to FLAC again using audacity Audacity is mainly a music editor, not a converter. You can use the [flac cli](https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html) tool to test if your .flac files decode without errors. For your example song: ```auto flac -t "Teminite - Stardust In The Universe.flac" ``` Personally I use [flacr](https://github.com/AverageHoarder/flacr), which is a python script I wrote to recursively verify and recompress .flac files with the latest decoder while setting a fixed padding and also calculating and storing replay gain tags. ---
**Author:** ![ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/armourarsenal/32/10649_2.png) [@ArmourArsenal](http://support.symfonium.app/u/ArmourArsenal)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 10:06am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/error-while-playing-media-for-recently-added-music/5087/8 "2024-08-31T10:06:25Z")
Yes, I have used the flac cli and got the error while decoding. Nice work on flacr btw it’s awesome!