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
