Playback Errors

[Android-4life]

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Affected version

0.28.1

Steps to reproduce the bug

Went to F droid to update Newpipe and update went through resumed my playlist and started skipping multiple songs saying an error has occured

Expected behavior

Attempt to see if this is a bug or not

Actual behavior

Develpoers will look into report to see if the bug exists

Screenshots/Screen recordings

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Logs

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 16

Affected device model

Samsung Galaxy S24

Additional information

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and exporting my data resetting the app and importing my data and the issue still occurred

[absurdlylongusername]

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[Android-4life]

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Loading failed for [Castaway]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumjYyl1WMg
• Content Country: CA
• Content Language: en-CA
• App Language: en_CA
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-01-23T11:06:50.477-08:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.1
• OS: Linux samsung/e1qcsx/e1q:16/BP2A.250605.031.A3/S921WVLU4CYI9:user/release-keys 16 - 36

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.player.mediasource.FailedMediaSource$StreamInfoLoadException: org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ContentNotAvailableException: The page needs to be reloaded.
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager.$r8$lambda$o9pPAAzp1URPxayOlD1n6iDJBCc(MediaSourceManager.java:448)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager$$ExternalSyntheticLambda6.apply(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleOnErrorReturn$OnErrorReturn.onError(SingleOnErrorReturn.java:55)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleMap$MapSingleObserver.onError(SingleMap.java:70)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnError$DoOnError.onError(SingleDoOnError.java:63)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.onError(SingleSubscribeOn.java:73)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle$ToSingleMaybeSubscriber.onError(MaybeToSingle.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onError(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:94)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.onError(MaybeConcatArray.java:100)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle$FromSingleObserver.onError(MaybeFromSingle.java:82)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess$DoOnSuccess.onError(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:47)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:16149)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5377)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4855)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:644)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:80)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:71)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:348)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)
Caused by: org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ContentNotAvailableException: The page needs to be reloaded.
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.checkPlayabilityStatus(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:929)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.fetchHtml5Client(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:977)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.onFetchPage(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:858)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Extractor.fetchPage(Extractor.java:60)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:77)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:72)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$bVfA-5gb6gDc8jcAgcGWG5oH0FE(ExtractorHelper.java:118)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda3.call(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:43)
	... 23 more

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