[BUG]: Audio track randomly changes

[Uncloak2]

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Affected version

30.68

Device Type

Smart TV/Box

Affected Android

SHIELD Android TV

Steps to reproduce the bug

Random

Actual behavior

At some point during a video, audio track changes to another random language (not English), sounds AI-generated. Completely random as to when it can happen. Stream was 4K/30/VP9/DRC.

It is playing over the top of the English track, sounds like auto-generated German this time.

Additional information

No response

[Fabioiuyut]

Was confronted with this, too, while dealing with my own other issue. Changing the video's language seemed to fix it on that front, but... it made me think my previous problem fixed itself. It didn't.
I still have a problem in my Philips Android/GoogleTV, where the only available audio tracks are in the original language. I can't choose between official non-AI dubs in videos that actually offer them

[chazzawalla]

I’ve had the same experience on .68. I was also getting a lot of buffering issues, and twice in about a week that buffering has resumed playback with a German audio dub.

Just updates to .75 so will see if the bug goes away but didn’t see anything in the notes

[yuliskov]

fixed

[ACR-Jeff]

I just had this happen on an Onn Google TV box - Smarttube 32.10 Beta
I immediately checked the audio language and it was still set to English, But was in another random language,
Then went through the settings and changed the standard settings I normally use on every device.
What I did was make sure I had these three settings checked:

1. Settings > Player > Network engine > Cronet
2. Settings > Player > Developer options > Disable automatic network error fixing
3. Settings > Player > Developer options > Prefer IPv4 DNS
4. Then cleared app cache
5. Restarted device
   Played a video and the audio language was normal again in English.
   Not sure what may have helped. Could have just needed a clean cache and restart as far as I know.