audio distortion youtube
Starting today, YouTube on Android Firefox using below version of Firefox, the audio distorts and has a continual popping clicking on each word of an audio podcast when you speed up the YouTube video to 1.5 or 1.75 prior to today it was fine ... The audio is still understandable but distorted when using one of these speed up settings
Using the Chrome browser, everything is fine on the speed up settings on YouTube.com
Android 15
136.0a1 (Build #2016067423), hg-abc92a419107+ GV: 136.0a1-20250112090142 AS: 136.20250110050330
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This bug is ongoing ... Does Firefox user submitted issues like this appear on some tracking site ?
Normal Firefox does not have this issue ... It's only on Firefox nightly ... I certainly hope this bug does not get pushed to main line Firefox
Hi,
Please log out of you youtube account and log in again. If this doesn't work then clear the cache memory of firefox through the settings in the phone.
Thank you
Hey EventHorizon, sorry it took me so long to find you! I was tracking Youtube audio issue questions in late Jan but could not find yours until now.
I did some digging & found a bug that was filed for this: Bug 1944207 - youtube.com - The audio keeps stuttering at a playback speed of more than 1x
- Play the video
- Change the speed to more than 1x
- Observe
Expected Behavior: The audio is playing correctly
Actual Behavior: The audio keeps stuttering and crackling
If the description in that bug matches what you're seeing, I would join that bug report & make a comment saying you're seeing the same thing & would like steps on how to find a regression range for the audio distortion bug. Let them know the date of the build you first noticed the bug. You can work your way backwards from there to previous builds until you reach a build that doesn't have the audio bug. Then the devs can figure out which patch caused the regression.
Here's a guide on using the regression range finder tool, Mozregression: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2016/10/11/found-a-regression-in-firefox-give-us-details-with-mozregression/
But I just realized this is going to be super annoying to do on Android compared to a desktop computer. But maybe the devs have a easier way to perform regression range finding on a phone. Otherwise it will be a lot of manually installing & uninstalling older Android nightly builds til you find the working one here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fenix/nightly/2025/
Also thanks for using Nightly! That's exactly what I do to catch bugs early & report them as soon as possible before it makes it into the mainstream/release code.
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