@jonas Thanks. I am using PipeWire, but have the Strawberry backend set to Gstreamer, with output to a PulseAudio server. Changing the output to Alsa doesn't make any difference.

Hello,
I am running Strawberry 1.0.12 on gentoo linux. I am having a minor annoyance playing .flac files, with the equalizer enabled. Most of my flac tracks are of CD quality: 44100 Hz, 16 bit depth, ~700-1000 kbps. I have a few flac tracks that are much higher quality: 192000 Hz, 24 bit depth, ~5000 kbps.

When Strawberry transitions between playing these different quality flac tracks, the audio is clearly distorted. So if Strawberry begins playing a CD quality flac track, after playing a high quality track, the audio sounds high pitched, as if it has no bass.

If the transition is the other way around, and Strawberry plays a high quality flac track, after playing a CD quality track, the audio sounds sort of muffled.

In both cases, after hitting the Stop button, and re-starting the track, the audio is normal. Also, this only happens if the equalizer is enabled, and disabling/re-enabling the equalizer also restores normal audio.

Is this a bug, and is there some setting I can tweak to address this?