Audiowizard/Bluetooth Audio Quality Drop after most recent update

[tac0k1ng]

Model: zenfone 11 ultra

android 14

My phone updated last night (11-18-2024) and this morning on my way to work, my phone connects to my stereo in my car automatically and it started playing music, but it didn't sound good at all. It sounded like the bass frequencies were cranked to the max and the mids and highs were muffled. I checked the audio wizard in settings and all I get is that 'Dirac service is unavailable'. 

I restarted the phone, didn't work. I cleared the cache and force stopped audio wizard and restarted the phone, didn't work. I tried 2 different sets of Bluetooth wireless earbuds, and they sounded the same where it was all out of wac. tried rebooting the phone in recovery mode but did nothing. Any ideas on how to fix this before i consider resetting the phone? 

[KurtFromBelgium]

Same problem, dirac-service stopped working after update. Restarted the phone twice but it didn't solve the problem. Please fix this asap please!

[scytheee · Accepted solution]

I wrote a message to support and I got the official response, they know about the issue and they already working on it. It will be fixed with the next patch  ASAP. 🥳

[xrisimos]

This is the way! Thanks 🙏 

[SeloTapeTM]

I have very 34.1420.1420472 and I have the same issue!

Tried everything on the headphone side (re pair, factory reset the headphones completely) only to realize that they are not the issue 😕

Hopefully the next update rolls out quickly cuz it's driving me mad

[scytheee]

Dirac is back finally.

Guys! Check on your side as well.

Version nr.: 34.1420. 1420.473