tvOS 27: Audio stops on shared library after 5 minutes

I have noted the same using my Apple Music playlists with HomePods. Resuming play on the song resolved it, but not it’s ideal. I’ve seen a few other reports as well. Please submit feedback to report the issue: Feedback - Apple TV - Apple

We have the exact problem as well. I was actually trying to see if anyone was. Glad it is a reported issue. Worked completely fine until the update to 27. Now we get about 3 minutes consistently before we get silent audio on our local video files.

Getting this problem too. Pausing and starting solves it temporarily until the next time.

It only started after the upgrade to tvOS 27.

The number and timing of the cut outs seems to be random.

No occurrence of this before the upgrade.

For some reason, last week this issue stopped for me with my home library, but it started again Friday so I'm back to square one. I've upgraded the machine it's streaming from as well and nothing seems to help. I'm using Symfonisk Sonos speakers, so it's an airplay issue with tvOS 27 and home sharing for sure. All other apps are working just as they always have. Not sure it's going to be fixed in the next version either because I've tried that as well.

One other new thing to add: the audio issue seems to be tied exclusively to files that I either ripped from my DVDs or have obtained outside of the iTunes Store (or Apple TV store, whatever the **** it's called now). When I tried to watch a show using Home Sharing that I had bought from Apple, the audio remained available for the full 10 minutes I watched. When I went back to watching Mad Men, not bought from the store, the audio fell out after 2 minutes as usual.

So, not entirely sure what that means but there's likely a technical issue here with audio codecs or converting for AirPlay. I'll keep poking around and troubleshooting to see if I can isolate the issue. The upcoming tvOS version still does not fix the issue, nor does playing with the audio settings (stereo only, 16-bit, whatever). Deeply, deeply annoying and frustrating bug.

Thanks! MP4Box Interleave to 500 milliseconds solved my audio issue also… I set the file to output to a new file just in case when I tested but the full movie played with no drops. Tested with a few more files and all audio drops on original HomePods were resolved and when streaming from iPad to older HomePods.

This is terrifying to do in bulk but so far no issues. Test files have worked without a hitch. Going to set it up so that it doesn't make any modifications to movies/shows I've bought from the iTunes store but this is definitely gonna be a multi-day project for me.

The problem is not with HomePods as when watching tv with a satellite box the problem doesn’t happen.

I tried both HomePods and tv speakers and it did it as well. It's also not every video file we have either. But the ones that have the issue, will have the issue every single time.

It’s not “a reported issue” unless you actually do report it because Apple doesn’t read these forums to be made aware. Please use this link to submit your report ——> Feedback - Apple TV - Apple

Same here, same setup has worked flawless until the HomePod 27 (24j361) update now dropped audio after two minutes will resume if you pause and restart.

Still happening after the recent update to tvOS 27.2

That’s very frustrating. I was hoping this would be fixed right away.