Music player crashing after some time

[TheLinuxBlahaj]

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

play a playlist of your choice (mine contains both soundcloud and youtube songs)

Expected behavior

songs playing just fine because this app is perfect and has very fast transitioning between songs but sadly crashes mid song for me :(

Actual behavior

after listening for some time ~10 minutes music suddenly stops playing mid song
following with a notification that newpipe has encountered an error (ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS)

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://soundcloud.com/neonviolet/dumbass
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: SoundCloud
• Timestamp: 2025-11-18T07:54:59.696+01:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: SoundCloud
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: Linux samsung/dm1qxeea/dm1q:14/UP1A.231005.007/S911BXXU8CYB4:user/release-keys 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:230)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:319)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultHttpDataSource.open(DefaultHttpDataSource.java:413)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.prepareExtraction(HlsMediaChunk.java:495)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.feedDataToExtractor(HlsMediaChunk.java:468)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.loadMedia(HlsMediaChunk.java:437)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.load(HlsMediaChunk.java:394)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

### Affected Android/Custom ROM version

android 14 oneui 6.1 (stock rom)

### Affected device model

Samsung Galaxy S23

### Additional information

seems that im not the only person with that bug as the same issue appeared here: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11240

although i don't really understand what its "answer"? was supposed to mean, im confused and just want my music to work fine as it should instead of crashing every now and then after listening for a while #