diff --git a/src/client/voice/VoiceConnection.js b/src/client/voice/VoiceConnection.js
index 54ab5707c..5dbd9c4e4 100644
--- a/src/client/voice/VoiceConnection.js
+++ b/src/client/voice/VoiceConnection.js
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class VoiceConnection extends EventEmitter {
 
     this.player.on('error', e => {
       this.emit('warn', e);
+      console.log('so yeah uh'+e);
       this.player.cleanup();
     });
 
diff --git a/src/client/voice/VoiceWebSocket.js b/src/client/voice/VoiceWebSocket.js
index e2d13be16..688951c5c 100644
--- a/src/client/voice/VoiceWebSocket.js
+++ b/src/client/voice/VoiceWebSocket.js
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ class VoiceWebSocket extends EventEmitter {
   send(data) {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       if (this.ws.readyState === WebSocket.OPEN) {
-        console.log('sending', data);
         this.ws.send(data, null, error => {
           if (error) {
             reject(error);
diff --git a/src/client/voice/dispatcher/StreamDispatcher.js b/src/client/voice/dispatcher/StreamDispatcher.js
index 068ff4104..47832e1ae 100644
--- a/src/client/voice/dispatcher/StreamDispatcher.js
+++ b/src/client/voice/dispatcher/StreamDispatcher.js
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class StreamDispatcher extends EventEmitter {
   _sendBuffer(buffer, sequence, timestamp) {
     let repeats = this.passes;
     const packet = this._createPacket(sequence, timestamp, this.player.opusEncoder.encode(buffer));
-    while (repeats--) this.player.voiceConnection.sockets.udp.send(packet);
+    while (repeats--) this.player.voiceConnection.sockets.udp.send(packet).catch(e => console.log('so uhhh', e));
   }
 
   _createPacket(sequence, timestamp, buffer) {
diff --git a/src/client/voice/pcm/FfmpegConverterEngine.js b/src/client/voice/pcm/FfmpegConverterEngine.js
index 21d0449c3..2d54ac23e 100644
--- a/src/client/voice/pcm/FfmpegConverterEngine.js
+++ b/src/client/voice/pcm/FfmpegConverterEngine.js
@@ -7,9 +7,36 @@ class PCMConversionProcess extends EventEmitter {
   constructor(process) {
     super();
     this.process = process;
+    this.input = null;
     this.process.on('error', e => this.emit('error', e));
   }
 
+  setInput(stream) {
+    this.input = stream;
+    stream.pipe(this.process.stdin, { end: false });
+    this.input.on('error', e => this.emit('error', e));
+  }
+
+  destroy() {
+    this.emit('debug', 'destroying a ffmpeg process:');
+    if (this.input && this.input.unpipe && this.process.stdin) {
+      this.input.unpipe(this.process.stdin);
+      this.emit('unpiped the user input stream from the process input stream');
+    }
+    if (this.process.stdin) {
+      this.process.stdin.end();
+      this.emit('ended the process stdin');
+    }
+    if (this.process.stdin.destroy) {
+      this.process.stdin.destroy();
+      this.emit('destroyed the process stdin');
+    }
+    if (this.process.kill) {
+      this.process.kill();
+      this.emit('killed the process');
+    }
+  }
+
 }
 
 class FfmpegConverterEngine extends ConverterEngine {
diff --git a/src/client/voice/player/AudioPlayer.js b/src/client/voice/player/AudioPlayer.js
index bb0494450..c518f307f 100644
--- a/src/client/voice/player/AudioPlayer.js
+++ b/src/client/voice/player/AudioPlayer.js
@@ -26,9 +26,10 @@ class AudioPlayer extends EventEmitter {
     stream.on('end', () => {
 
     console.log(Date.now(), 'real input stream ended');
-    })
+    });
+    stream.on('error', e => this.emit('error', e));
     const conversionProcess = this.audioToPCM.createConvertStream(0);
-    stream.pipe(conversionProcess.process.stdin, { end: false });
+    conversionProcess.setInput(stream);
     return this.playPCMStream(conversionProcess.process.stdout, conversionProcess);
   }
 
@@ -37,12 +38,7 @@ class AudioPlayer extends EventEmitter {
     console.log(Date.now(), 'clean up triggered due to', reason);
     const filter = checkStream && this.currentDispatcher && this.currentDispatcher.stream === checkStream;
     if (this.currentConverter && (checkStream ? filter : true)) {
-      if (this.currentConverter.process.stdin.destroy) {
-        this.currentConverter.process.stdin.destroy();
-      }
-      if (this.currentConverter.process.kill) {
-        this.currentConverter.process.kill();
-      }
+      this.currentConverter.destroy();
       this.currentConverter = null;
     }
   }
@@ -65,6 +61,7 @@ class AudioPlayer extends EventEmitter {
     dispatcher.on('end', () => this.cleanup(dispatcher.stream, 'disp ended'));
     dispatcher.on('speaking', value => this.voiceConnection.setSpeaking(value));
     this.currentDispatcher = dispatcher;
+    return dispatcher;
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/test/random.js b/test/random.js
index 32adab2d8..b7ec51d11 100644
--- a/test/random.js
+++ b/test/random.js
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ client.on('channelCreate', channel => {
   console.log(`made ${channel.name}`);
 });
 
-client.on('debug', m => console.log('debug', m));
 client.on('error', m => console.log('debug', m));
 client.on('reconnecting', m => console.log('debug', m));