@Jellby said in Continuous Buffering:

@rlkeeney said in Continuous Buffering:

As a retired Linux/Unix Systems Programmer, I have extensive experience with Linux.

Perhaps at this point what remains in biting the bullet, compiling your own Strawberry build and trying to debug with it.

It might be a good idea if there were time available. However, it only takes two mouse clicks to restart, so it is not worth the effort at this time.

I was able to stop this behavior by unchecking all the cover providers.

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@remelach You're welcome.
Additionally, you can also use MP3Tag to check/edit the metadata of your songs, in case you need another software to do so.

@henk
The startup could be slower because of the way Strawberry initializes objects earlier at startup, I fixed bugs and even rewrote many parts of the code where Clementine did things unsafe thread-wise, ie.: reading and modifying GUI things from a another thread than the main thread, which will be faster, but it's broken code, and just a coincidence that it doesn't crash.
One thing you can try is to turn off "Grey out unavailable songs in playlist on startup" in Settings / Playlist, this feature will lag the startup significantly.

Strawberry has a little delay at the beginning of the scan, it's because it iterates through the directories to find the number of files for the progress % status.
Clementine calculates the progress only based on the number of directories, which makes the progress inaccurate, and often stuck on 97-99% for a long time.
Other than that, then scan speed should be pretty much identical.

@sardior
Found the problem and solution:
First, the stream is encoded. If you wish to keep compatibility don't buy from Apple, the m4p file format is encoded and cannot be used with the Strawberry Music Player. Conversion to mp3, ogg, or flak format is advised if you wish to use your iTunes music library.
Delete the file from the playlist so it won't find it and try to play it again. This is a single music file issue (though I have many m4p files) and cannot be solved until after the revolution...

I think it would look like this:

{Disc %disc/}

@ruinspc IIRC you fix this on a per-tracks basis by unclicking "compilation" in the track's properties. Or similar option.

FYI https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/pull/1837

Update: After giving the iPod to a friend who reformatted it with iTunes for Windows, Strawberry can now read the iPod. However any music written to the iPod seems to disappear as soon as I disconnect it. I can confirm that files placed on the device manually do not disappear

@jonas , exactly! thank you very much!
I installed

gst-plugins-adaptivedemux2

and I can play Tidal streams now with following log:

$ GST_DEBUG=3 strawberry 20:20:07.255 INFO main:180 Strawberry 1.2.13 Qt "6.9.2" 20:20:07.256 INFO main:181 "Gentoo Linux 2.17 - (linux 6.12.21-gentoo) [i386]" 20:20:08.587 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Next")) 20:20:08.591 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Play")) 20:20:08.596 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Previous")) 20:20:08.602 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Stop")) 20:20:09.499 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "subsonic" 20:20:09.529 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "tidal" 20:20:09.746 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "qobuz" 0:00:23.992780856 22848 0x1b54610 WARN discoverer gstdiscoverer.c:2080:start_discovering: No URI to process 0:00:24.312955998 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux.c:668:gst_adaptive_demux_change_state:<dashdemux2-1> error: Element requires a streams-aware context. 0:00:24.315852177 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN decodebin gstdecodebin2.c:2423:connect_pad:<decodebin0> Couldn't set dashdemux2-1 to READY 0:00:24.344984722 22848 0xb0d19f60 WARN codec-utils codec-utils.c:2833:gst_codec_utils_caps_from_mime_codec_single: Unknown codec 'flac' please file a bug 0:00:24.353183041 22848 0xb0d19f60 WARN structure gststructure.c:1032:gst_structure_set_field: Trying to set empty string on taglist field 'container-specific-track-id'. Please file a bug. 0:00:24.387177797 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN structure gststructure.c:1032:gst_structure_set_field: Trying to set empty string on taglist field 'container-specific-track-id'. Please file a bug. 20:20:33.272 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "Musixmatch" "Received status code 401, switching to URL based lookup." 20:20:33.284 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "LoloLyrics" "Error transferring https://api.lololyrics.com/0.5/getLyric?artist=Massive Attack&track=Paradise Circus - server replied: (203)" 20:20:33.341 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "lyricfind.com" "Empty reply received from server." 0:00:26.587052516 22848 0xb0d05500 WARN flacdec gstflacdec.c:798:gst_flac_dec_handle_frame:<flacdec0> Lost sync, flushing decoder 0:00:26.703255491 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.705925523 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.709059511 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.707080419 22848 0xb0d15bd0 FIXME decodebin3 gstdecodebin3.c:1305:gst_decodebin_input_unblock_streams:<decodebin3-0> Re-use existing input streams if/when possible 0:00:26.711201823 22848 0xb0d15bd0 FIXME decodebin3 gstdecodebin3.c:1305:gst_decodebin_input_unblock_streams:<decodebin3-0> Re-use existing input streams if/when possible 0:00:27.574134043 22848 0xb0d280b0 WARN flacdec gstflacdec.c:798:gst_flac_dec_handle_frame:<flacdec1> Lost sync, flushing decoder

I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2 Zara. The following config just worked for me:

Tools > Settings... > User interface > Appearance > Style > Style: gtk2

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@itunes-refuge I actually found a workaround for this a while back, which I explained here: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3567

@jonas any thoughts about this one chap? Super weird, I can't conceive what the issue might be, unless "2024.10.30" somehow compiles to the same hex code as M, or some other completely unexpected, arcane, but technically logical reason.

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Here is an example of what I mean, normally I'd expect it to show up with the file name instead.