I use smart playlists almost exclusively.

I want to be able to sort the list or reorder them.

@KillerKomodoOhNo

I scrobble to three places last.fm, libre.fm, and listenbrainz. listenbrainz is by far the best.

@Sharky-PI In your collection view. Hover over the search field, and a box will appear that tells you how to do this. Most of these will also work in the listing search.

@rakham You can import the data from Clementine. The instructions are here in the forum. I did it.

@KillerKomodoOhNo: If you scrobble, this is easy.

My all-time stats on ListenBrainz

@ondra5 I can barely see the icon and not well enough to guess what it is.

@poppop I have "Finger Printing and Tracking" turned on.

Does Strawberry write something to the files each time they are played?

@desputin If I understand correctly, you need to set the rating to >3.5. That will play anything rated at four or above.

@rlkeeney Control-P Click on the top option (Behavior) 12 lines down is the language drop-down.

https://listenbrainz.org/user/RapidRoy/

@Jellby said in Continuous Buffering:

@rlkeeney said in Continuous Buffering:

As a retired Linux/Unix Systems Programmer, I have extensive experience with Linux.

Perhaps at this point what remains in biting the bullet, compiling your own Strawberry build and trying to debug with it.

It might be a good idea if there were time available. However, it only takes two mouse clicks to restart, so it is not worth the effort at this time.

@ben2talk
I'm running smartd continuously and have manually run the long diagnostic. I also monitor drive health daily via an automatically generated report that is emailed to me.

I have run extensive tests on this drive with nothing found. It has zero bad sectors, and none of the replacement sectors have been used. Despite its age, this drive tests completely clean. The only thing I have not done is a destructive read-write test.

@sam_adams

I know you are trying to be helpful, and I thank you for that. However, I am only posting here to keep the thread alive.

As a retired Linux/Unix Systems Programmer, I have extensive experience with Linux. I have been using Linux since shortly after Slackware was released. If there were an error, I would have found it. I am not your typical user, and my system is not typical. I can provide any info Jonas might need. However, I doubt Jonas could duplicate my system. For example, I have 48GB of RAM, 19 TB of active storage, 28 TB of offline storage for backups, and a few TB of network-shared storage.

BTW, my music is on a local attached (SATA) hard drive.

Strawberry worked fine for years, and then the buffering thing started while I was using Fedora. I later switched to Linux Mint LMDE 22.1 because I support people who have Linux Mint and only support one Fedora system.

@Sharky-PI said in Continuous Buffering:

@rlkeeney very unlikely mate, but: any chance it's a hardware issue, and it's randomly finding segfaults on the disk? Worth running a chkdisk on it just to rule it out?

Chkdisk is a Windows command. However, it did get me thinking and checking things, and I found out that smartd was not running.

The smartd daemon monitors the health of storage devices (like hard drives and SSDs) using SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). It runs in the background, periodically checks disk health attributes (e.g., temperature, error rates), and can send alerts or log warnings if it detects potential issues. This helps prevent data loss by identifying failing drives early.

Still doing the buffering thing. Sometimes it stops several times a day.

I have some large playlists (all smart). I have tried different sizes, but they have had no effect.

@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.

It is still happening at random times.

I use rsync and back up my entire home directory to two external hard drives.

It is working now. I had changed some settings on the scrobblers and misunderstood the settings I was changing.

I thought a local file would scribble anything on my hard drive. Apparently, it only scrobbles files I play that are not in my collection. I never do this with Strawberry, and it was the only one selected. I turned on Collection and turned off Local Files.

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.