diff --git a/src/core/DisTubeHandler.ts b/src/core/DisTubeHandler.ts
index a26023c..3dc3a65 100644
--- a/src/core/DisTubeHandler.ts
+++ b/src/core/DisTubeHandler.ts
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export class DisTubeHandler extends DisTubeBase {
       headers: {
         "user-agent":
           "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) " +
-          "Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+          "Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.3",
       },
     });
 
diff --git a/src/core/DisTubeVoice.ts b/src/core/DisTubeVoice.ts
index cf0bece..a07c52a 100644
--- a/src/core/DisTubeVoice.ts
+++ b/src/core/DisTubeVoice.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Constants } from "discord.js";
 import { TypedEmitter } from "tiny-typed-emitter";
-import { DisTubeError, isSupportedVoiceChannel } from "..";
+import { checkEncryptionLibraries, DisTubeError, isSupportedVoiceChannel } from "..";
 import {
   AudioPlayerStatus,
   VoiceConnectionDisconnectReason,
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ export class DisTubeVoice extends TypedEmitter<DisTubeVoiceEvents> {
     return joinVoiceChannel({
       channelId: channel.id,
       guildId: this.id,
+      // @ts-ignore
       adapterCreator: channel.guild.voiceAdapterCreator,
       group: channel.client.user?.id,
     });
@@ -161,6 +162,10 @@ export class DisTubeVoice extends TypedEmitter<DisTubeVoiceEvents> {
    * @param dtStream - DisTubeStream
    */
   play(dtStream: DisTubeStream) {
+    if (!checkEncryptionLibraries()) {
+      dtStream.kill();
+      throw new DisTubeError("ENCRYPTION_LIBRARIES_MISSING");
+    }
     this.emittedError = false;
     dtStream.on("error", (error: NodeJS.ErrnoException) => {
       if (this.emittedError || error.code === "ERR_STREAM_PREMATURE_CLOSE") return;
diff --git a/src/struct/DisTubeError.ts b/src/struct/DisTubeError.ts
index 14f94f4..c2f9595 100644
--- a/src/struct/DisTubeError.ts
+++ b/src/struct/DisTubeError.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ const ERROR_MESSAGES = {
 
   FFMPEG_EXITED: (code: number) => `ffmpeg exited with code ${code}`,
   FFMPEG_NOT_INSTALLED: (path: string) => `ffmpeg is not installed at '${path}' path`,
+  ENCRYPTION_LIBRARIES_MISSING:
+    "Cannot play audio as no valid encryption package is installed. Please install sodium-native, sodium, libsodium-wrappers, or tweetnacl.",
 
   NO_QUEUE: "There is no playing queue in this guild",
   QUEUE_EXIST: "This guild has a Queue already",
diff --git a/src/util.ts b/src/util.ts
index 1bed75d..c41aedb 100644
--- a/src/util.ts
+++ b/src/util.ts
@@ -172,3 +172,13 @@ export function isNsfwChannel(channel?: GuildTextBasedChannel): boolean {
 
 export type Falsy = undefined | null | false | 0 | "";
 export const isTruthy = <T>(x: T | Falsy): x is T => Boolean(x);
+
+export const checkEncryptionLibraries = () => {
+  for (const lib of ["sodium-native", "sodium", "libsodium-wrappers", "tweetnacl"]) {
+    try {
+      require(lib);
+      return true;
+    } catch {}
+  }
+  return false;
+};