Sound crashing games servers

So recently my games servers started crashing and I found it’s because of some audio.
Sound with this ID: 83594623 crashes any server if its played. I’m loosing lots of money! I made dev product which allows players to upload songs and play them and some of them are putting this ID and crashing my server!!
Any ideas fixing this? :frowning:

Tested that thing on Mad Murderer with boombox and Catalog heaven, both crashed.

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if textbox.Text ~= ‘83594623’ then
–play song
end

For the 2 games you mentioned, the place owners will have to do the same ):

A guy did that in catalog heaven with the gold boombox and crashed everyone but me and him. I was on windows vista and he was on iOS - I assume everyone else was on windows 7 or tablet

The fix for this should ship next week btw.

Amazing! :smiley: :woohoo:

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This bug seems to be back with the following ID crashing game servers when played.

3111471683

It crashed Jailbreak, Mad City and Murder Mystery so I assume all games are affected. Seems to crash the server for all clients.

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It’s probably due to how Roblox handle corrupted audio, since it doesn’t seem to affect mobile users, well on iOS, not sure if it’s affected on Android.

Another ID that also crashes servers: 3583277608

Currently being abused a lot in Murder Mystery 2 :frowning:

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Can confirm. The ID 3583277608 crashes PC and IOS users when played. Not sure about Android.

This is definitely a big issue for games that are very big and popular, and give players the ability to use a boombox or play music. Murder Mystery 2 is a great example, considering it’s very well known around the community. But it’s quite annoying, because players will continue to keep making audios like these, each time one gets removed another will be made.

My server is continuous crashing all the sudden, could this be the issue?

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it began around 2 hours ago, Im just guessing this is it. the servers were fine all the sudden till about 2 hours ago.

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This issue started occurring a few hours ago. There’s a certain audio that is currently being abused in many well known games including Murder Mystery 2, and almost any game that allows boomboxes to be used. The audio ID is 3583277608, but there are probably more audios out there that do the same thing. I’ve experimented with this audio quite a bit, and I can confirm that it is crashing peoples roblox games, I recently went into a game made by @willingnerd to test this issue out. A player played the audio ID I put earlier into a boombox, and after a few minutes it crashed his whole server, including others clients including my roblox client. Now I’m not certain if it’s just this audio, or if roblox audios are somehow getting corrupted and used for bad reasons, like crashing peoples clients. But this issue needs to be resolved, and I know a few people who tried this on IOS and can confirm it also crashes IOS players roblox client as well. This is a big problem, as it will decrease player activity in many games on roblox, which makes roblox and their developers look bad.

It appears this is mainly happening with boomboxes, as I’ve just received word that whenever @willingnerd removed boomboxes out of his game entirely, that the crashing has stopped

Games it’s occurring in:
https://www.roblox.com/games/142823291/Murder-Mystery-2?refPageId=8e3f826f-db71-4113-8b49-33392034c7d2
https://www.roblox.com/games/1591974778/CHRISTMAS-City-of-London
https://www.roblox.com/games/441585237/New-Kempton-V5?refPageId=511e36f3-7170-463f-b397-fa21e8b117e1

There’s a lot more than this, but these are the games I’m currently fully aware of the situation occurring in

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If you have a way to play music in your game, you should disable this for now. Considering this issue has come up multiple times and there are other concerns about the boombox in Roblox (other bypassed audio, loud audio, copyright audio, etc), the best action is to permanently remove it from your game or whitelist a set of ids. When audio is bypassed, whether is crashes games like this case or is explicit, you open yourself up to these types of attacks from exploiters with enough money.

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So apparently this issue is back again now, i was streaming today and someone kept crashing our tower of Hell Server.

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Any updates on if this is being looked into?

This issue is still ocurring, please look into it! My game is unstable with all the people abusing boomboxes to play the audios that crash servers.

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This is still a problem. Server crashes cause serious problems when it comes to player data. Why is this still a problem 5 years later? This needs to be fixed.

I’ve been having this problem recently as well. One ID that is affecting games is 6072836577

This Problem Happened Again a id being used is 6031980863 keep crashing our game they play it twice to crash people I have blacklisted it but they keep creating new audios everytime this problem need to be fixed

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Yup it still works, it must be fixed, this is unacceptable, anyone with an audio id can just crash entire server, I don’t even get why Roblox has this vulnerability :angst:.

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