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unchecking "Update the collection when Strawberry Starts" just met to use the collect i have to manually refresh the collection ...
i tried using a link in \Music ... testing this revealed another interesting behavior ... if i play an album after it complete .. attempting to play anything, including the album just played, in the entire collection i get the error message "... decryption not supported "
scanning the entire collect fixes this ...
I have not been able to try either a collection in the ~/Music nor have i tried mounting the SDD as ~/Music ... hope to do this this weekend ...
Thanks for the help will report on the above tests