Minimal reproducible example

https://github /MichaelHabermas/React-Native-Expo-Audio-Test-App

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android

Where did you reproduce the issue?

in a development build, in Expo Go

Summary

Expected: The Audio player from expo-av continues to play audio clips as they are loaded and unloaded, without issue.

Happening: The Audio player from expo-av crashes after 41 serial audio clip plays (but only in Android. Not iOS, don't know about web). On checking the status with soundObj.getStatusAsync(), it returns this error: { "code": "E_AUDIO_NOPLAYER" }

Environment

expo-env-info 1.2.0 environment info:
System:
OS: Windows 11 10.0.22621
Binaries:
Node: 20.11.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
npm: 10.5.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
IDEs:
Android Studio: AI-241.18034.62.2411.12071903
npmPackages:
expo: ~51.0.24 => 51.0.24
expo-router: ~3.5.20 => 3.5.20
react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0
react-dom: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0
react-native: 0.74.3 => 0.74.3
react-native-web: ~0.19.10 => 0.19.12
Expo Workflow: managed

Expo Doctor Diagnostics

npx expo-doctor@latest
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