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    • J
      Jellby
      last edited by

      Any relation with https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1166/stuck-after-a-track-is-finished ?

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      • rlkeeneyR
        rlkeeney @Jellby
        last edited by

        @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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        • rlkeeneyR
          rlkeeney
          last edited by

          I'm still getting the buffering issue.

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            rlkeeney @rlkeeney
            last edited by

            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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              jonhd @rlkeeney
              last edited by

              @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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              • rlkeeneyR
                rlkeeney @jonhd
                last edited by

                @jonhd I just started 'journalctl -f', hopefully this will catch something.

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                • rlkeeneyR
                  rlkeeney @jonhd
                  last edited by

                  @jonhd Nothing in the logs. It ran 49 minutes, then went into continuous buffering.

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                  • rlkeeneyR
                    rlkeeney @rlkeeney
                    last edited by

                    I configured the Strawberry buffering to "0ms," which seems like it would turn buffering off.

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                    • jonasJ
                      jonas @rlkeeney
                      last edited by jonas

                      @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?

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                      • rlkeeneyR
                        rlkeeney @jonas
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • rlkeeneyR
                          rlkeeney
                          last edited by

                          @jonas Strawberry stopped playing again with the buffering set to 0ms.

                          Screenshot at 2025-08-23 05-33-12.png

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                          • jonasJ
                            jonas @rlkeeney
                            last edited by

                            @rlkeeney
                            Try setting low watermark to 0.10 and buffer duration to 8000

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                            • rlkeeneyR
                              rlkeeney @jonas
                              last edited by

                              @jonas Done.

                              I have it looping on a long play and running 24/7.

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