WiiM Ultra Firmware v5.2.632547 Update - Oct 15, 2024

[adias]

Excellent. So it seems WiiM has 2 FW versions with Chromecast working.

 

[Dennis from Venice]

I have nothing working. Before the update, all was well. Now, I went to Roon and it can't find the Ultra. I rebooted the Ultra and quit and restarted both Roon and the Ultra. Still nothing. Then I tried playing music from my music library on the Ultra and it worked. Then I stopped the music on the Ultra and tried JRiver (which is a DLNA streamer). JRiver found the Ultra and when I played a song, it started playing the song I had previously played from the Ultra music library. Nothing I could do would play the song chosen in JRiver.....it would just start and stop the Ultra song.


UPDATE: As a last resort, I rebooted the Ultra and two computers (I have a headless Mac Mini running the Roon server}. That worked. Roon is once again working. I never had to go to those extremes before.

 

[sNc]

While using Chromecast with YouTube Music, I hear strange slowdowns of music from time to time. My ears have picked this up several times today.

It's like there's a power shortage for a quarter of a second, and the song isn't played at a normal tempo during that time, it's like it's at 90% tempo. Very weird. This was not the case before the update.

 

[Burnside]

While using Chromecast with YouTube Music, I hear strange slowdowns of music from time to time. My ears have picked this up several times today.

It's like there's a power shortage for a quarter of a second, and the song isn't played at a normal tempo during that time, it's like it's at 90% tempo. Very weird. This was not the case before the update.

Did you raise a ticket when this occurred so WiiM can inspect your device logs for clues as to why this is happening?

 

[mlsstl]

UPDATE: As a last resort, I rebooted the Ultra and two computers (I have a headless Mac Mini running the Roon server}. That worked. Roon is once again working. I never had to go to those extremes before.

This may or may not have had anything to do with your situation, but sometimes a reboot without a power off doesn't clear a memory cache, so the device restarts with the bad info still in its memory. In that case, it may help to power down and let the device sit for a minute or two before powering up again. Sometimes multiple restarts will accomplish the same thing.

 

[sNc]

Did you raise a ticket when this occurred so WiiM can inspect your device logs for clues as to why this is happening?

Just did

 

[Smartplug]

This is why wiim can’t get their beta done because too many submitted ticket when it’s their equipment fault. A simple reboot many problem without fix itself.

 

[GimmeShelter]

So here is where I’m at with Googlcast.

On my iPhone 15 iOS 18 I can cast from Soundcloud (with artwork) and YouTube Music (with artwork)

I can’t cast from Mixcloud or PLEX?