@jonas It appears the setting you mentioned which I have disabled only applies to the library. The problem is with Strawberry placing albums into a Various Artists folder to a synced device. The only album that should be here is the first one, the rest are placed incorrectly.

I would like if Strawberry could strictly follow the Naming Options on the sync settings page when syncing songs. Anything else should be ignored.
My sync Naming Options are;
%albumartist/%album/%track %title.%extension

@trincowski Never used kid3, however it does look like they are all the same. I manage the track information from strawberry. Tag 1 is empty, I don't see a compilation checkbox in kid3. Strawberry reports it is not a compilation.

My main request is to disable the Various Artists Folder behavior entirely. I don't want to have to troubleshoot every album that could have this happen for the rest of time.

1.1.3 has the issue as well.

As of 1.1.2 this problem is still occuring.

@Dryst You can still obtain the 1.0.23 version from achive sites and use that. That was released for free and will let you test the software. Then you can decide if that version is good enough and stay there forever like I am on the windows boxes I have or you can decide to pay money for a music app. I backed up this version myself since it works well enough for my needs on the only windows boxes I use.

@CharAznableLoNZ I synced trying the setting suggested however strawberry still incorrectly puts albums into the various artists folder.
Is there any way to disable this functionality entirely?

@Jellby I've noticed it happening more recently. I have it happening despite not pausing the tracks. I have to kill the process since it just locks up when I try to change tracks manually once it's stuck on buffering. I wonder if it's trying to access gstreamer. I have my set to use wrapper audio sink since that is what it was default and it has always worked before.

@econnolly My understanding is that only changes how the library displays songs. I'll try it next time I sync a device. My issue is when I sync a playlist, some tracks will be placed in Various Artists. These tracks are listed under the correct artist in the library and my sync options uses Album Artist instead of just Artist during sync.

@Jellby The tracks are on a USB drive that is mounted at boot. It is treated as a normal HDD compared to a USB drive that gets plugged in later and mounted in /media. I notice it most often when strawberry stops playing music. I don't often pause/unpause my music so I don't know if that is involved.

I also have this problem. It is inconsistent on when it's going to happen. I'm on Version 1.0.23 on Fedora 39 KDE. While it's stuck on buffering I can interact with the window, however if I try to manually play the next track strawberry freezes.