M3ufy Player 3.85 is out — and the app can now tell me what went wrong by itself .

I said last week that 3.85 would take as long as it needed. Then two people reported that the app hadn't finished loading since 3.80, and a bug that stops the app opening doesn't get to wait for a polished release. So this one is out now.

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This is the change that matters most, and it isn't a feature you'll enjoy — it's the one that makes everything else fixable.

Until now, when something went wrong on your box, I had your description and nothing else. No log, no idea what your chip can decode, no idea how much memory it had to work with. Some of the bugs in this release took a week of guessing because of that. One of them was only solved because u/tok83 turned on debug logging on his own router and posted the raw output — which is more than anyone should have to do.

Now the app can hand that over itself. It sends its own recent log and a description of what your box can do: how many screens it can open at once, which soundtracks its chip handles, how much memory it lends the app. It sends nothing about what you watch, and never your playlist address, username or password.

If you report a bug here, send a report right afterwards and say so. It's the difference between me guessing and me fixing.

The app that wouldn't finish loading

Reported by u/No_Pin6001 and u/Airwokfuk: since 3.80 the menu and the start of the home screen would appear, the sections would sit there with wavy lines, and nothing responded. The only way to get one working start was to reinstall.

The home screen only stopped saying "loading" once a row came back with titles. If every row came back empty — no connection to the film database, an expired login, an add-on that had gone, or all rows switched off — it never stopped, and with nothing on screen there was nothing for the remote to land on. So the app looked frozen while it was actually waiting for something that was never coming. Reinstalling helped for one session because it restored the default settings, not because anything was repaired.

It now always finishes, whatever comes back, and a row that fails can no longer take the whole screen with it.

If this was you, please tell me whether 3.85 fixes it. I found the cause in the code and it matches your description exactly, but I never managed to reproduce your hang on my own hardware, so your word is the only confirmation there is.

A pause you couldn't come back from

Resuming a pause that had recorded nothing handed the player an empty file — and an empty file never becomes playable. Black screen, spinner, no way to carry on watching the programme. I found this by accident while testing something else, and the log said it outright: "playing the pause: 0 kB recorded so far". The app now checks the pause holds something and puts the live picture back when it doesn't.

Artwork that never arrives now says the title

Three of you reported this separately in one day — u/tok83, u/Ricky74d and u/AffectionateFilm1655 — which is what made me take it seriously. A poster or channel logo that failed to load drew nothing at all: a black rectangle, indistinguishable from one still loading. It turned out to be the same blind spot in three different places — the code watched for images succeeding and never for them failing. Failed artwork now falls back to the name, so the card can still be read and chosen.

Everything else

-Search opens on a new All tab — channels, radio, films and series at once, under headings, instead of starting on -TV channels and finding nothing when you were looking for a series (thanks u/Ekynoxxx)
-Favourites and your own groups now sit at the top of Live TV, where the guide already put them — and Favourites is offered when picking a channel for a second screen (u/tok83)
-Each title remembers the audio language you chose, and a series keeps it from one episode to the next
-Switching audio track now re-syncs itself — and the re-sync button actually works, instead of asking the player to seek to where it already was (u/AffectionateFilm1655)
-A setting to stop episodes moving on by themselves (u/Ekynoxxx)
-A film from an installed link opened from Continue Watching now offers its sources instead of saying it can't be found
-Recordings say which drive they're on, and a recording on a network drive formatted as exFAT plays instead of reconnecting five times and giving up — this was u/tok83's router logs
-A pause refused by the Android player now says why, instead of blaming your provider (u/memphisraynz — you weren't doing anything wrong).