A collection of many things, mostly metal and rock, with rare additions of really weird stuff.

This would be useful to create a variant of an existing smart playlist with minimal changes. For example, to take a nontrivial smart playlist, and make a copy which also filters everything by genre or something like that.

I thought it's possible to do so by manually editing strawberry.conf (section [SerializedSmartPlaylists]), but after I try to edit the copy, the changes are not actually saved, so it's not actually helpful.

The FLAC file in question verifies correctly, so it's not just a broken file.
I'm unsure how could I possibly report it, since I won't have legal rights to share the file that's causing the problem, but maybe there are things I could do to diagnose the problem? Does strawberry leave any traces when something like this happens? Or are there any particular settings which could remedy that?

P.S. if I split it into pieces (with re-encoding to FLAC again), then it plays fine, so maybe it's not some intrinsic property of the sound recording itself, but something problematic with the format usage, or the fact it's using a cuesheet, I don't know...

+1, this is also useful with certain kinds of crappy hardware and sound backends

A collection of many things, mostly metal and rock, with rare additions of really weird stuff.

This would be useful to create a variant of an existing smart playlist with minimal changes. For example, to take a nontrivial smart playlist, and make a copy which also filters everything by genre or something like that.

I thought it's possible to do so by manually editing strawberry.conf (section [SerializedSmartPlaylists]), but after I try to edit the copy, the changes are not actually saved, so it's not actually helpful.