"Dorico cannot connect to the audio engine" every second or third start

Getting this every second or third time when I start Dorico. Repeatable.

I have never had audio engine issues before (despite many people reporting such here.)

Something has shifted.

Windows 11.

Sorry @Ulf ! And I was just getting ready to run your timing tests.

Send him your Diagnostics, @Andro.

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Remind me how we do that. Post here, or private email?

Do Help > Create Diagnostic Report, and provided the resulting zip file is smaller in size than 4MB, attach it here.

Dorico Diagnostics.zip (1.1 MB)

Hi @Andro,
thanks for the data.
Dould it be that you reload Dorico frequently and that you are doing this too quickly? Because the audio engine always lingers on a few seconds longer than Dorico. If you then restart Dorico too quickly, it will try to connect to the audio engine in shutdown, and that of course will fail then.
I know, this is a long existing flaw in our software, but we will address it soon.

@Ulf this is exactly what I was doing.

Curiously, this has only ever happened to me with the new 5.1.70 update, so it caught my attention. Since this is a known issue, and the workaround is simple (don’t do what I am going!) we can mark this as solved without further ado.