Ultra Doesn't sleep

[Dennis from Venice]

Lately, when I shut down my music players, the WiiM Ultra VU meter is still displaying hours later. Each time this happens I think I must have a player still in memory but they are all closed down.

I have two "players" JRiver with DLNA and to a much lesser extent, Tidal with Tidal Connect. So my solution has been to reboot the WiiM, but when I run the Mac WiiM APP, the problem is obvious. The WiiM APP is showing it is playing something. When I click on the pause button, and wait a short time, the WiiM goes to sleep.

Where on earth is it getting the command to play something? I think it is Tidal but not sure. So I did a test.

I played music from JRiver and then stopped it. I checked WiiM before and after with the MAC WiiM APP and it did what it was supposed to.

Then I did the same with Tidal and lo and behold when I clicked on Stop in the Tidal APP and closed it, WiiM kept on playing. Here's a screen shot from the WiiM APP 5 minutes after I closed Tidal. It just keeps going. If I click on the WiiM Pause button, all is well again.

Below is WiiM APP still going after stopping Tidal playback:

 

[Burnside]

Think I’ve seen similar using other connect mechanisms - when you establish a connect session, you’re in effect handing an element of control over to the cloud and the playing device. Also, if you have some sort of autoplay in use the initial control point has less of a part to play in controlling the stream. I guess it might be a combination of those factors and as you’ve found, you need to terminate the stream on the playing device, not the control point. Or you could say there’s a bug in the control app or playing device …

 

[Dennis from Venice]

Think I’ve seen similar using other connect mechanisms - when you establish a connect session, you’re in effect handing an element of control over to the cloud and the playing device. Also, if you have some sort of autoplay in use the initial control point has less of a part to play in controlling the stream. I guess it might be a combination of those factors and as you’ve found, you need to terminate the stream on the playing device, not the control point. Or you could say there’s a bug in the control app or playing device …

Yes...it appears to only be an issue with Tidal. When I stop music on Tidal I have to also open the WiiM app and also press stop there. Or use the WiiM remote.

Roon, Emby, JRiver, and Plex work fine.

Definitely a bug.