Not sure if this belongs here, but here goes...
I was watching old Star Trek original series with the AirPod v3's in, trying not to provoke the sleeping wife to emerge from her slumber to tell me how much she hates the original series, and the audio started breaking up. It was subtle at first, after about 3 or 4 minutes. An effect like the sound was crumbling like a dry muffin. Then it got worse until, within probab10 seconds, the sound completely dropped out. Oddly, the video didn't stop, so the ATV didn't get the message that the APv3's had dropped the connection to it, but I had no audio. Popping one out, and popping it back in 'reset' the audio, and it continued again, until it happened again.
It literally sounds like it's dropping small samples of the audio, and it crescendos until nothingness. They stay connected, as I said, and everything is just happy happy, as if nothing was happening with the APv3's.
the interesting wrinkle is that this never happened until after I updated the Apple TV, and my iPhone. I don't know what the firmware of the APv3's is, and will check that out, and test the audio again, but it was definitely reproducible, and very annoying. I was hoping the audio didn't dump back to the amplifier and speakers, which didn't happen.
Is this something others have experienced? I will try to see if I can get a recording of it when it happens again. Housekeeping note, they were fully charged, and I was within about 8 feet of the ATV.
Disturbing, and depressing... I have had the Beats Fit Pro buds kind of die out a little (not completely) a couple of times, but they work solid with my iPhone, so I am wondering if this is a flaky ATV, or what. I'd assume that if it was the ATV, it would have reacted to the loss of the APv3's, and dropped that connection, or paused the video like it does if an APv3 is removed from an ear hole.
Weird... Not expected, and sad...
Thanks for reading...
I was watching old Star Trek original series with the AirPod v3's in, trying not to provoke the sleeping wife to emerge from her slumber to tell me how much she hates the original series, and the audio started breaking up. It was subtle at first, after about 3 or 4 minutes. An effect like the sound was crumbling like a dry muffin. Then it got worse until, within probab10 seconds, the sound completely dropped out. Oddly, the video didn't stop, so the ATV didn't get the message that the APv3's had dropped the connection to it, but I had no audio. Popping one out, and popping it back in 'reset' the audio, and it continued again, until it happened again.
It literally sounds like it's dropping small samples of the audio, and it crescendos until nothingness. They stay connected, as I said, and everything is just happy happy, as if nothing was happening with the APv3's.
the interesting wrinkle is that this never happened until after I updated the Apple TV, and my iPhone. I don't know what the firmware of the APv3's is, and will check that out, and test the audio again, but it was definitely reproducible, and very annoying. I was hoping the audio didn't dump back to the amplifier and speakers, which didn't happen.
Is this something others have experienced? I will try to see if I can get a recording of it when it happens again. Housekeeping note, they were fully charged, and I was within about 8 feet of the ATV.
Disturbing, and depressing... I have had the Beats Fit Pro buds kind of die out a little (not completely) a couple of times, but they work solid with my iPhone, so I am wondering if this is a flaky ATV, or what. I'd assume that if it was the ATV, it would have reacted to the loss of the APv3's, and dropped that connection, or paused the video like it does if an APv3 is removed from an ear hole.
Weird... Not expected, and sad...
Thanks for reading...
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