Roku Player and Long music file names

Server Version#: 3.108.2
Player Version#: not sure

Hi Guys,

Seeing odd behavior when playing specific songs on the Roku devices ( I have three models and it happens all all three). This behavior does not occur if I am playing on the computer (browser), alexa, or sonos.

I have King Crimson’s “In the Court of the Crimson King” on my server. Two tracks have excessively long names:

Title: The Court Of The Crimson King (Including The Return Of The Fire Witch And The Dance Of The Puppets)
FileName:
/volume1/homes/PRouleau/music/CDs/King Crimson/In The Court Of The Crimson King/05 The Court Of The Crimson King (Including The Return Of The Fire Witch And The Dance Of The Puppets).wma

Title: Epitaph (Including March For No Reason And Tomorrow And Tomorrow)
FileName:
/volume1/homes/PRouleau/music/CDs/King Crimson/In The Court Of The Crimson King/03 Epitaph (Including March For No Reason And Tomorrow And Tomorrow).wma

Whenever either of these two tracks plays on the Roku device, the player pauses and never completes the song. It does not move to the next track. It just stays there. The point of the song where it freezes is random, in that it doesn’t stop in the same place, but usually it is pretty early in the song.

Since this occurs only on the Roku, is there a filename or title limitation that could be affecting this? Has anyone else seen this behavior. Of course I could try renaming the files to see if that fixes it, but I simply ripped the CDs and didn’t expect this to be an issue.

Thoughts?

More details:
Server is running on Synology DS218j NAS.

Renamed the files to really short names didn’t change the result.

Apparently Plex on Roku just hates King Crimson. :unamused:

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