Continuous Buffering
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At random, Strawberry stops playing on the status line; it says buffering. The buffering stays there until I click the stop button and then click play. Off it goes until maybe days later, and it will do it again. It's not a big problem and likely not Strawberry, but I wanted to report it in case.
Fedora Linux 40
Strawberry 1.2.9 -
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@Jellby I don't think it is related. The symptoms do not match.
Last night, it hard-locked. I could not click on anything, so I had to kill the process and restart. There was an error window, but instead of an error message, there was a chunk of a video that was playing in another window.
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I'm still getting the buffering issue.
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I have updated to the latest version of Strawberry, and I am still getting the buffering issue. It will play for hours and stop. At the bottom of the screen, on the status line, it says: Buffering 0%. The number never increases from zero. If I click stop and then play, it will take off and play for a few more hours and stop again.
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@rlkeeney Any clues in the system log? Maybe leave 'journalctl -f' running in a terminal, and Alt-Tab to it, when the next lock occurs.
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@jonhd I just started 'journalctl -f', hopefully this will catch something.
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@jonhd Nothing in the logs. It ran 49 minutes, then went into continuous buffering.
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I configured the Strawberry buffering to "0ms," which seems like it would turn buffering off.
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@rlkeeney
Is it local files or streams? If local files, do you play them from the local HD, or remotely? And what audio format is it? -
@jonas said in Continuous Buffering:
@rlkeeney
Is it local files or streams? If local files, do you play them from the local HD, or remotely? And what audio format is it?It is local files. I never stream.
They are played from an internal SATA hard drive.
The audio format is MP3.
I play MP3s using smart playlists 99% of the time. The only time I don't use a playlist is when I am playing something new and unrated.
I have all three scrobblers enabled, along with the cover search, although I really don't need this, as I rarely look at a cover.
Pretty much everything else is disabled, including the analyzer and mood bar, which I see as useless.
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@jonas Strawberry stopped playing again with the buffering set to 0ms.
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@rlkeeney
Try setting low watermark to 0.10 and buffer duration to 8000 -
@jonas Done.
I have it looping on a long play and running 24/7.
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@jonas said in Continuous Buffering:
@rlkeeney
Try setting low watermark to 0.10 and buffer duration to 8000This did not work. It stopped twice in the last 24 hours.
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I just upgraded to Version 1.2.12. I'm waiting to see what happens now.
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Strawberry stopped two times today, about 15 minutes apart.
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Strawberry stopped three times in the last 24.
Could there be something connected with the playlist list causing this? It is a very large playlist.
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It is still happening at random times.
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@jonas, Strawberry, the 0% buffering issue persists. It stopped twice in the last hour. Previously, it ran for approximately 36 hours without issue.
I have switched from Fedora 40 to Linux Mint 22 LMDE, and I'm still experiencing the same issue. SO, it doesn't seem like the operating system is the problem.
I run Strawberry on this system 24/7. There is nothing in my logs that indicates anything related to Strawberry. The same thing happens when I start Strawberry with the --verbose option. It just stops. Clicking the stop button and then clicking the play button restarts playback on the same track it stopped on and is always successful. Play continues for a random number of tracks before it happens again.
