· Bang & Olufsen Beosound A5 connected by chromecast, stops at end of track, does not advance to next track in playlist. I can hit next track on Roon or on A5 and it continues to play. Sometimes when hitting next track the A5 locks up.
All other chromecast devices work ok (Besound M3, google speakers, google chromecast audio pucks).
Beosound A5 works ok with Airplay.
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· Deco BE95. Roon server is connected by Ethernet. A5 is connected wifi, 5Ghz, strong connection under 8 ft unobstructed from main access point. (I also tested disabling all mesh network, no difference)
Thank you for reaching out and providing those detailed network and device notes. Since your Beosound A5 is handling Airplay perfectly but stalling on track transitions via Chromecast, it points to a slight timing mismatch between Roon’s stream handoff and the B&O’s internal Chromecast module locking onto the new audio stream.
To fix this, we can give the speaker just a little more time to buffer and sync before it attempts to play the next song in the queue.
Here is how to adjust this:
In Roon, navigate to Settings > Audio.
Click the gear icon () next to your Beosound A5 (the Chromecast zone) and select Device Setup.
Click Show Advanced.
Look for the setting called Resync Delay.
Change this value from 0ms to 500ms (or up to 1000ms if 500ms doesn’t quite do the trick).
Adding this slight delay forces Roon to send a brief period of silence during track transitions. This gives the A5’s hardware plenty of time to lock into the new track without getting overwhelmed and dropping the queue or locking up.
Give this adjustment a try and let us know if it allows your playlists to advance automatically again!
Thanks for testing that range of Resync Delay values and reporting back. Since 500 ms, 1000 ms, and even 5000 ms did not change the behavior, we need a timestamp for this from the affected zone.
Please send us a screenshot of the Signal Path when this happens, with the time visible, so we can line it up with what the Beosound A5 is doing at the transition point.
title;artist;album;isrc
Last Great American Whale;Lou Reed;New York;uswb11501549
Tom's Diner;Suzanne Vega;Solitude Standing;usam18790001
Horizon Ouverture;Daft Punk;Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition);gbduw2300010
Flume;Peter Gabriel;Scratch My Back (Special Edition);gbcpb0900625
Race Car Ya-Yas;CAKE;Fashion Nugget;usca19686705
Fast Car;Tracy Chapman;Tracy Chapman;usee10180719
Elstree;Buggles;The Age Of Plastic;gbaan8000031
Thanks for your patience so far! A fresh server diagnostic report is showing multiple documented stall instances across the times you’ve shared above. The pattern is identical every time:
Track plays normally, buffer full at 100%
As the track nears its end, the buffer drains to ~13–14% remaining
Playback position freezes 1–2 seconds from the end — the A5 keeps reporting PLAYING but position never advances
Roon waits indefinitely for a Cast IDLE/FINISHED status callback that the A5 never sends
The zone stays frozen until you manually skip or pause
When tracks advance successfully, this message appears in the log:
[BeoTestCC] [zoneplayer] BufferingTrack == NextTrack during ClearQueuedMedia,
setting _stop_on_next_track_transition
This is Roon reacting to a proper STOPPED callback from the Cast device. This message is entirely absent during all three A5 stalls. The A5 simply never fires the end-of-track signal. Roon isn’t broken, it’s waiting for a notification that the A5’s Cast firmware never delivers.
A good next step in troubleshooting this issue - test playback using a separate audio source completely outside of Roon, does the issue still occur?
This could very well be a B&O firmware bug in relation to the A5’s Cast implementation. It may be worth sharing this information with B&O directly as well, if you haven’t already.
) next to your Beosound A5 (the Chromecast zone) and select Device Setup.
