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.

@CharAznableLoNZ Unfortunately after syncing, Strawberry is still putting albums into Various Artists that do not have Compilation box checked.

@econnolly It was checked. Going to disable that on every track in my library. That's highly annoying since there is no mention in the sync settings about that checkbox. Maybe a tweak could be made to ignore the compilation checkbox during sync.

Had another example today. Of the twelve albums of Toho Bossa Nova, the twelfth one was sent to various artists on sync instead of the correct folder the other eleven were. All albums have the same Album Artist Entry. Further I went and investigated the various artists folder and found several more examples.
Is there a way to disable this behavior entirely? I want it to follow my sync options and nothing else.