Subsonic stuck at buffering every 2:30 on MacOS

palvji

Using Strawberry 1.2.7 in MacOS, when playing tracks via Subsonic (Navidrome server) every track plays until about the 2:30 mark, then it gets stuck at Buffering 0%...:

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If I use the navigation bar to go to any part of the song, it resumes playing as normal, but only for another 2:30 mins. Then it get's stuck again.

The server works ok, it's been tested with different players. In fact, Strawberry in Kubuntu 24.04 works ok, so I believe this is something MacOS specific

This started some versions ago, I believe 1.2.3 was the first one with the issue.

I've reproduced the issue capturing the log

GST_DEBUG=5 GST_DEBUG_FILE=/tmp/strawberry-gst-debug.log ./strawberry

but the output is 700mbs. I can upload it somewhere if useful

palvji

Just tested now, 1.2.3 works ok, 1.2.5 has the issue. Can't test 1.2.4 as it is missing from the strawberry-downloads Github

Hopefully that helps narrowing down the issue to some change between those 2 versions

jonas

@palvji
It most likely has to do with GStreamer or libsoup was upgraded in one of the versions that perhaps has introduced a bug.
Can you try enabling "Enable HTTP/2 for streaming" in Tools / Settings / Backend. The default is to turn off HTTP/2 because of some issues in the past, but that should be resolved. Restart strawberry to make sure it's enabled, as this setting is a bit special, since not a normal setting but rather a environment variable set by strawberry that libsoup picks up.

palvji

Thanks @jonas . It was actually the other way around, I had HTTP/2 enabled for streaming and when I disabled it the Buffering issue did not appear.

With this setting disabled, it works in 1.2.5 and 1.2.7

It looks like a bug when using that config. Let me know if you want me to open a ticket for it or test further, for now I'll use HTTP/1.1

Thanks again!

jonas

@palvji
I can confirm this, just tested on Linux with HTTP/2, stuck on buffering after 54 seconds into the song when playing a tidal track.
I'm guessing there is regression in one of the recent libsoup versions. I will do some more testing when I have more time.
Luckily the default in Strawberry is still to force off HTTP/2 for streaming unless you manually check the HTTP/2 option in the settings.