Sooooo... is there a way to stop this? Known bug? Intended behavior? It kind of defeats the purpose of repeat mode, as far as I can tell, to just stop playing.

It might be worth observing that where the embedded image is smaller, Strawberry seems to display a background image that is restricted by the size of the embedded image - but it isn't the embedded image, it's the Strawberry-backround-image version with lots of pixelation.

@collapsinghrung You need to enable the rating column, right click on the playlist columns (track, title, album, artists, etc), and check rating, it's in the bottom of the list.