Device (Denon) takes 25 secs to play (and skips last part of song)

[gue22]

Plan Premium, Country Austria, Device Denon, HW & Operating System all

Until yesterday Spotify had me jump with anger for at least two weeks by skipping the last part of almost any song when I played on the big Denon -- no matter where I streamed. (iPhone, PC,...)

Today the end-skipping on the Denon seems to have stopped (iPhone, latest iOS 16.3), but it sometimes still seems to take roughly 25 secs until the Denon starts to play the selected music (which seems to correspond to the time it used to skip at the end).

Some debugging would be highly appreciated to keep me from leaving.

Regards

G.

[gue22 · Accepted solution]

For several weeks playing Spotify on the big Denon AVR-X4500H was no joy at all, no matter if initiated from iPhone, Mac or Windows.

It took 25 secs to start playing and at the end the music stuttered or the rest was skipped. (roughly corresponding to the 25 secs in the beginning.

First suspected slow internet or bad buffering, but no problem playing on the gadgets themselves.

Unplugging the Denon w/ latest firmware didn't help either.

Coupla days after the post the problem was gone. Must have been a problem across the whole Spotify app code-base.