failed to init decoder

[pedolsky]

The problem

Using a Homepod mini. The service media_player.play_media is unreliable. The service fails and throws the error above.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.8.0b0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Supervised

Integration causing the issue

WebSocket API

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/websocket_api/

Diagnostics information

home-assistant_2024-08-05T09-18-16.188Z.log

Example YAML snippet

service: media_player.play_media
target: media_player.homepod
data:
  media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/sounds/bell_1.mp3
  media_content_type: music

### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

_No response_

### Additional information

_No response_

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[matellis]

I am experiencing this as well. Let me know if I can provide any further data to help.

[tijnemans79]

yep, same here. media_player.play_media for atv integration (homepods mainly) is rather unstable throwing this error (but not limited to this error alone).

also let me know if I can share further data.

[gms10ur]

same here

[waterlou]

same here

[MReschenberg]

I'm getting this error when using a homepod mini as the output for tts.speak with pico

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