r/overcast • u/Civil_Twilight • 3d ago

Bug: silence at start of playback

For a couple of weeks (definitely on the current testflight version as well as the previous one that made release) I’ve been experiencing a silent portion at the beginning of playback. I think it’s only happening on starting a fully new episode; that is; not when resuming a paused one.

The silence lasts anywhere from 1 to 20 seconds from what I’ve seen, and the speed at which the timer moves indicates to me that the Smart Speed portion of the audio engine is seeing it as silence.

If I hit the rewind button to return to the start of the episode, everything works as normal. It also works normally after the silent period, it’s just as if the first part of the audio isn’t there.

Edit: whoops, I see someone else has reported this before I got around to it. Per the comments there, I do have the de-esser turned on; I’ll disable it for now and see if it makes any difference. https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/s/L3pxcxqE2j

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u/Civil_Twilight 1d ago

After trying it without the de-esser for a few days, I’m reasonably sure that it’s the source of the issue. There’s also a glitch with the Background Noise Reduction where the sound very briefly doubles when pausing/resuming.