It wasn't displayed correctly in my previous message: the two artists are separated, in the tag, by a double backlash (not a single backlash).

@ben2talk Thanks for your reply, indeed you are right the .cue file looks to be created for a .wav file, since it contains the "WAVE" tag at the end of the FILE value.

I want to point out for clarity that in Strawberry adding the .cue or the .flac file directly works fine as it is. (The problem happens when adding folders that contain a single flac / cue)

I don't really want to split the .flac in multiple files, still tried DeadBeef, and found our that in DeadBeef player adding the folders works just fine.

I also took a look at .cue format standard, and tried changing WAVE to FLAC, just in case : same outcome.

Thanks!

@cybuzz73 The last Strawberry update was almost two months ago, which is kinda recent. You probably found a new bug 'cause I think is the first time someone complains about this issue. In Windows Strawberry works fine speaking about this section (Based in my experience) so, perhaps is a bug happening only in Linux Mint?

Raising the buffer duration to 8 000ms didn't do a whole lot. But raising it to 30 000ms, and also lowering the low watermark to 0.10 has almost fixed the issue. There is now just the occasional skip (e.g. once every LP play).

Isn't it possible to implement Subsonic in such a way that it buffers the entire song? This is how Sublime works, it actually buffers the playing song plus the two next tracks in the play queue.

@jonas My apologies, I meant to follow up on this on GitHub and hadn't found time. I took a look at the code links, I have some background in reading code at least, but I was out of my depth to be honest.

So, I've tried this a couple of different ways. I have the NAS server in the closet, and I can access it on my Linux PC via NFS (which is set up to automount on demand via autofs, and unmount after inactivity), as well as a more traditional SMB. The SMB I have set up to mount in fstab. I've tried setting my full library to one or the other and I do see the same issue via both protocols. Well, with subsequently added folders since changing the mount point results in a new library.

To add some more confusion: I recently shrunk my Linux partition and installed Windows in a dual-boot configuration since I had need for it. I decided to try Strawberry on Windows, accessing the share via SMB. I have it set as a networked drive (M:), and my library is pointed to M:. I do not encounter the issue on Windows -- it seems to add new directories just fine on startup when set to scan for changes.

Character missing from the font being used?

@Mijaeus
The stars are only shown if there are local collection songs in the playlist, if the playlist is empty they are not shown.
If this is not the issue then show a screenshot of what you mean.

@alphanumeric No. I have understood you can only completely quit the left sidebar, but you cannot remove specific buttons from it.

@Redhatter I've got the same problem on Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS (Plasma Desktop).

Found out:

The keys can be added in system settings "shortcuts".
If another mediaplayer is configured, to use the same keys, it has to be removed first.
Maybe, there are similar techniques to add the keys on another OS.

@jonas Thanks - trying it - typically after having it for a few weeks with debug on I can't provoke it, but it also looks like it got an update from Debian as well. I'll keep trying!

@mrbluebudo the empty rules menu has been fixed (at least for me!) - in recent builds which you'll need to download manually

@jonas Ah. Had no idea. I used it a lot in iTunes. I thought it was a standard tag. Thanks!

Thanks for your reply.
I have all the 3 settings disabled. As long as WASAPI is used in non-exclusive mode every soundcard or DAC is opened with its default system settings, whereas in the exclusive mode app which opens the DAC can set them.
So as a workaround I have started playback, checked sampling rate, stopped, changed Windows default sampling rate for my DAC to match the sample rate of my audio files. The sound improved a lot.
Unfortunately this workaround is really inconvenient, especially in a longer run.

Could you add WASAPI in exclusive mode? It could be marked as unstable etc.

Do you mean VLC as a standalone app? I haven't spotted "exclusive" mode there for WASAPI.