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.

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!

@jonas On checking - I had protobuf-compiler already installed (so why did I install via snap??!!) I removed the snap version and re-ran cmake - make then gave me
ext/libstrawberry-tagreader/CMakeFiles/libstrawberry-tagreader.dir/build.make:73: *** target pattern contains no '%'. Stop.
I removed the build directory contents and then cmake/make ran ok - not sure whether cmake should just have worked with the dependency change but it's now ok.

@jonas Will do! (but at moment the bug isn't re-appearing)

@jonas Thanks for the reply, jonas. Apparently the main difference between the "N" editions of Windows and the rest is the absence of media tools by default, including resampledmo.dll. It wasn't in my System32. Installing the Media Feature Pack adds it back in, and the installer + program seem to work now.

@jonas Gotcha. Thanks for the update.

@jbayes
It's not hard-coded, just not specified anywhere so it uses the default storage on the phone. I think this was a restriction in the llibrary used in strawberry (libmtp), and not strawberry itself. But it might be possible in newer versions of libmtp. Unfortunately I have to many things to do so I'm not sure when this can be looked into again.

@ggszmr
What version is this? Version 1.0.15 is always using strict ssl and no option to turn it off. Fixed in 1.0.16.
It could be related to the SSL certificate, do you have the option for "Use strict SSL mode" in the backend settings, turn it off.
It could also be that you are missing a gstreamer plugin for the stream, or the stream is unsupported.
You can use the gst-discoverer-1.0 utility to figure out what stream it is.
Usage.: gst-discoverer-1.0 <URL>
Then install the specific gstreamer plugin needed.

@jonas Downloaded that build and on running LGTM - thanks!

Installed it through ubuntu PPA and now everything just works!