@jonas
Without the playlist the issue does not occur.
With the playlist it stops responding.
This also happens when loading the playlist on a clean start.

The setup:
Laptop with MinGW-W64 1.0.2 Strawberry installed.
Library on network drive, k:\music configured on Strawberry.
Playlist with 9.5k songs saved from previous use.
The issue:
Open Strawberry
Click anything, the first thing works.
Next click Strawberry goes unresponsive and uses 30% CPU
Must kill Strawberry in Task Manager.

I run Strawberry on linux as well and have only had a couple crashes, on this W10 laptop it's unusable. On a W10 desktop with a local library, it's been stable. Both were installed using the same installer file.
I've tried the other build and found Strawberry started and quit before ever showing a window.
This setup is identical to how it was setup for Clementine and I never had an issue when Clementine was used.

Being able to analyze with a tool similar to spek would be extremely useful when comparing tracks. It allows a quick visual comparison of tracks.
Why not just use spek? The spek project has been dormant for a few years now, I fear it may never get updated to be available on newer distributions.