New Groove Agent (SE) 5.2.30 Maintenance available

FraSe · October 15, 2025, 9:07am

Dear all,

recently we have released a Groove Agent (SE) 5.2.30 Maintenace.
This maintenance includes minor bugfixes as well as major technical improvements on application and content side.

If you already have installed Groove Agent 5 and the Groove Agent 5 Content please also update the Groove Agent 5 Content.
You will get the updates via the Steinberg Download Assistant on category Updates → VST Sounds:

Groove Agent Factory Content
Install Missing VST Sounds
Raw Power
The Kit or The Kit SE (depending on your Installation)

Please make sure to install theses four download choices.

Have fun

Tech-dance · October 15, 2025, 10:23am

Thanks FraSe, most unexpected. Missing VST Sounds sounds intriguing!

FraSe · October 15, 2025, 10:46am

Yes, that´s new AI from planet Vulcan
To be honest, because of some technical improvements we had to split some old content to new vstsounds. So there are 5 new vstsounds including the old presets . Thats the trick.

Nemanja86 · October 15, 2025, 12:08pm

Hi,

I’ve just updated everything, including the missing files (update assistant first showed 19GB for missing files, then when i turned it on again it showed another 5GB of missing files and third time around 2GB) and now i’ve got around 15GB less on my drive? Which content is eating my space and what happened there?

Thanks!

Thor.HOG · October 15, 2025, 12:44pm

You probably still have the original installation files downloaded - you can just delete those.

You can use Steinberg Library Manager to view your Groove Agent library details, and can easily Sort by Date to see the ~8GB worth of content from this update:

FraSe · October 15, 2025, 2:16pm

Open the Steinberg Library Manager, hold down ALT-Key and click on the “i” Info button on the right upper corner . That generates a report. Can you please send me that?

Nemanja86 · October 15, 2025, 2:26pm

To send it here or to message you?

FraSe · October 15, 2025, 2:55pm

Please message me

FlyIvee · October 15, 2025, 5:31pm

Hey there im just updating “VST Sounds” would this be what your talking about?

Nemanja86 · October 15, 2025, 9:49pm

Probably. I’ve sent library manager report to the expert, so we‘ll have to wait for response.

FlyIvee · October 15, 2025, 11:56pm

Let me know how it goes cause all of a sudden my groove agent is gone too

FlyIvee · October 16, 2025, 12:12am

How come Groove Agent SE 5 isnt working or starting up?

Easto · October 16, 2025, 2:19am

I got this after the update. Should I be concerned?

Jan_Riesener · October 16, 2025, 8:46am

Hi Easto,

Just click on “Remove”. The presets are now located in another container, so no need to be concerned.

Cheers,
Jan

SpeedyGonzalez · October 16, 2025, 8:49am

Seems I have an issue with the Download Assistant not being able to connect to the Download Manager. Anybody else has this problem?

SpeedyGonzalez · October 16, 2025, 9:13am

Here is part of the Steinberg Download Assistant logfile.

2025-10-16 11:01:25.068 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.http.AuthorizedHttpClientImpl : GET for net.steinberg.elicenser.download.common.LinkLookupPathFinder$Link with url https://pathfinder.mb.steinberg.net/rest/oidc-issuer
2025-10-16 11:01:25.082 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.http.AuthorizedHttpClientImpl : Sending http request: GET https://pathfinder.mb.steinberg.net/rest/oidc-issuer HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

2025-10-16 11:01:25.092 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.http.PinnedKeyStoreBuilder : Certificate: /certificates/alphassl_ca_2027.pem found: true
2025-10-16 11:01:25.108 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.http.PinnedKeyStoreBuilder : Certificate: /certificates/Alpha_SSL_7F1F_intermediate.pem found: true
2025-10-16 11:01:27.282 ERROR 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.d.aria2.internal.Aria2Service : An exception occurred while accessing aria2JService

java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException: null
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy47.getVersion(Unknown Source) ~[na:na]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.download.aria2.internal.Aria2Service.getAriaVersion(Aria2Service.kt:52) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.download.aria2.internal.Aria2Service.getAriaVersion$default(Aria2Service.kt:50) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.common.UserAgentServiceFromSystem.getUserAgent(UserAgentServiceFromSystem.kt:28) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.http.AuthorizedHttpHandlerFactory.buildHttpHandler(AuthorizedHttpHandlerFactory.kt:42) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.http.AuthorizedHttpHandlerFactory.getHttpHandler(AuthorizedHttpHandlerFactory.kt:30) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.http.AuthorizedHttpClientImpl.execute(AuthorizedHttpClientImpl.kt:58) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.http.AuthorizedHttpClientImpl.get(AuthorizedHttpClientImpl.kt:26) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.http.AuthorizedHttpClient$DefaultImpls.get$default(AuthorizedHttpClient.kt:9) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.common.LinkLookupPathFinder.getHref(LinkLookupPathFinder.kt:22) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.common.LinkLookupPathFinder.getOIDCIssuerRel(LinkLookupPathFinder.kt:49) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.oidc.clientregistration.ClientRegistrationFactoryUsingDiscovery.getIssuerUri(ClientRegistrationFactoryUsingDiscovery.kt:52) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.oidc.clientregistration.ClientRegistrationFactoryUsingDiscovery.fromOidcIssuerLocation(ClientRegistrationFactoryUsingDiscovery.kt:20) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.oidc.NimbusOIDCService.(NimbusOIDCService.kt:40) [classes!/:1.38.1]
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) [na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) [na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) [na:1.8.0_402]
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) [na:1.8.0_402]
at kotlin.reflect.jvm.internal.calls.CallerImpl$Constructor.call(CallerImpl.kt:41) [kotlin-reflect-1.8.0.jar!/:1.8.0-release-345(1.8.0)]
at kotlin.reflect.jvm.internal.KCallableImpl.call(KCallableImpl.kt:108) [kotlin-reflect-1.8.0.jar!/:1.8.0-release-345(1.8.0)]
at kotlin.reflect.jvm.internal.KCallableImpl.callDefaultMethod$kotlin_reflection(KCallableImpl.kt:159) [kotlin-reflect-1.8.0.jar!/:1.8.0-release-345(1.8.0)]
at kotlin.reflect.jvm.internal.KCallableImpl.callBy(KCallableImpl.kt:112) [kotlin-reflect-1.8.0.jar!/:1.8.0-release-345(1.8.0)]
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils$KotlinDelegate.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:903) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:198) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:117) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiate(ConstructorResolver.java:306) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:291) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1372) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1222) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:582) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:542) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:335) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:234) ~[spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:333) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:208) [spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:955) ~[spring-beans-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:929) ~[spring-context-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:591) ~[spring-context-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:732) ~[spring-boot-2.7.18.jar!/:2.7.18]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:409) ~[spring-boot-2.7.18.jar!/:2.7.18]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:308) ~[spring-boot-2.7.18.jar!/:2.7.18]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1300) ~[spring-boot-2.7.18.jar!/:2.7.18]
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1289) ~[spring-boot-2.7.18.jar!/:2.7.18]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.AbstractJavaFxApplicationSupport.init(AbstractJavaFxApplicationSupport.kt:19) ~[classes!/:1.38.1]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.download.Application.init(Application.kt:91) ~[classes!/:1.38.1]
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:841) ~[jfxrt.jar:na]
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$1(LauncherImpl.java:182) ~[jfxrt.jar:na]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
Caused by: org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: Failed to read server’s response: Connection refused: connect
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcStreamTransport.sendRequest(XmlRpcStreamTransport.java:179) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcHttpTransport.sendRequest(XmlRpcHttpTransport.java:142) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcSunHttpTransport.sendRequest(XmlRpcSunHttpTransport.java:70) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClientWorker.execute(XmlRpcClientWorker.java:56) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:167) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:158) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:147) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
at net.steinberg.elicenser.aria2j.Aria2JXmlRpcFactoryBean.invoke(Aria2JXmlRpcFactoryBean.kt:41) ~[aria2j-1.0.6.jar!/:na]
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:186) ~[spring-aop-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:241) ~[spring-aop-5.3.31.jar!/:5.3.31]
… 48 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:79) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:172) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:613) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:561) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:463) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:558) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.(HttpClient.java:242) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:339) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:357) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:1233) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(HttpURLConnection.java:1167) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:1061) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:995) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1347) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1322) ~[na:1.8.0_402]
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcSunHttpTransport.writeRequest(XmlRpcSunHttpTransport.java:105) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
at org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcStreamTransport.sendRequest(XmlRpcStreamTransport.java:168) ~[xmlrpc-client-5.0.0.jar!/:5.0.0]
… 57 common frames omitted

2025-10-16 11:01:27.284 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.c.UserAgentServiceFromSystem : getUserAgent() - User Agent: Steinberg Download Assistant/1.38.1 ({“ClientBits”:“32”, “OSName”:“Windows 10 Enterprise”, “OSVersion”:“10.0 (19041.1.amd64fre.vb_release.191206-1406) x86”, “OSBits”:“64”, “OSLanguage”:“en_US”, “AriaVersion”:“”}; +https://www.steinberg.net/en/extras/about.html)
2025-10-16 11:01:27.284 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.h.AuthorizedHttpHandlerFactory : Using user agent: Steinberg Download Assistant/1.38.1 ({“ClientBits”:“32”, “OSName”:“Windows 10 Enterprise”, “OSVersion”:“10.0 (19041.1.amd64fre.vb_release.191206-1406) x86”, “OSBits”:“64”, “OSLanguage”:“en_US”, “AriaVersion”:“”}; +https://www.steinberg.net/en/extras/about.html)
2025-10-16 11:01:27.347 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.h.AuthorizedHttpHandlerFactory : HttpHandler is not stored, because the UserAgentService is not initialized yet
2025-10-16 11:01:27.681 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.http.AuthorizedHttpClientImpl : Received http response for https://pathfinder.mb.steinberg.net/rest/oidc-issuer:
Status = 200
Body = {
“href” : “https://iam.steinberg.net:443/am/oauth2”
}
2025-10-16 11:01:27.687 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] .ClientRegistrationFactoryUsingDiscovery : Resolved OIDC issuer to: https://iam.steinberg.net:443/am/oauth2
2025-10-16 11:01:27.688 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.http.AuthorizedHttpClientImpl : GET for net.steinberg.elicenser.download.common.LinkLookupPathFinder$Link with url https://pathfinder.mb.steinberg.net/rest/sda-redirect-uri-steinbergid
2025-10-16 11:01:27.689 INFO 5056 — [JavaFX-Launcher] n.s.e.d.http.AuthorizedHttpClientImpl : Sending http request: GET https://pathfinder.mb.steinberg.net/rest/sda-redirect-uri-steinbergid HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

Jan_Riesener · October 16, 2025, 9:17am

Hi SpeedyGonzales,

Please get in contact with our Support department. They should be able to help you here. Just go to: https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us

Cheers,

Jan

SpeedyGonzalez · October 16, 2025, 9:30am

Thank you Jan,

Just a quick update that on Windows 11 the Download Assistant works correctly. It is only on my Windows 10 PC that it gives the connection error.

SpeedyGonzalez · October 16, 2025, 9:47am

Hi Jan,

and another quick update. After rebooting the Windows 10 computer and letting it install the latest updates (as of today), the Downlaod Assistant also works now. Thanks for the response anyway!