I've had this happened several times. I'm playing a playlist (local files), and when some track is finished, the player gets kind of stuck:

• The track that just played does not get its playcount increased
• The track that just played is still highlighted in the playilst
• The player shows the "stop" button, not "play"
• The progress bar is at 0:00
• Nothing is playing

If I click on stop and then play, the same track plays again, and when it finishes playback continues normally with the next track.

This happens for different tracks from different sources, so I don't think it's file-related. It's a bit random, but lately I think I've noticed it tends to happen after I've paused the playback (not every time I pause it happens, but every time it happens I have paused). The tracks are all in an USB hard drive, so that could be related.

Is this something someone else has noticed? Is it a known issue? Could there be an easy-to-identify and fix bug in the buffering?

I'm running Strawberry 1.0.17 on Kubuntu 22.04 (KDE desktop).

I'm no expert, but you'd probably need the rest of your equipment and software (at least until the signal is turned to analog) to support it, and even then it's doubtful there will be any difference (https://www.makeuseof.com/16-bit-vs-24-bit-audio/).

@tagomago Maybe this helps? https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

@apistoletov said in Is there a more-or-less standard convention for storing Language info in the (FLAC) tags?:

On the other hand, it's somewhat common to have songs in made-up languages which wouldn't have the language code, but is there any interest in supporting them?

You could use "mis", "und" or "zxx", depending on the case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3#Generic_codes

Finally caught it while running with GST_DEBUG=5. This time, I had paused the track somewhat close to its end. Unfortunately, the logging is on the insane level, so I couldn't copy it all, and I don't even know if it has anything useful. Here is the last part of it, just in case:

https://paste.c-net.org/PuritySidra

@rlkeeney When I have something to "fix" in the database, I use sqlitebrowser on the strawberry.db file (with Strawberry closed, and after a backup, of course).

I've now had it happening a couple of time without pausing the track. Just now, I started Strawberry (1.1.2-rc1), added an album to the (empty) playlist and at the end of the second track it got stuck.

@tagomago Maybe this helps? https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

@apistoletov said in Is there a more-or-less standard convention for storing Language info in the (FLAC) tags?:

On the other hand, it's somewhat common to have songs in made-up languages which wouldn't have the language code, but is there any interest in supporting them?

You could use "mis", "und" or "zxx", depending on the case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3#Generic_codes

@CharAznableLoNZ It might be a different issue from mine. In my case, I haven't noticed a single time where it happened without having paused the track. And I haven't tried changing tracks (I believe), but it's always fixed by stopping and playing again, and never had a crash (so far).

@CharAznableLoNZ Any other difference from my original report? Are your tracks also on an external drive? Is there a correlation with having paused/resumed the playback before the problem occurs?

Ah, you mean the background You could have drawn the arrow pointing to the bottom part of the sidebar. I thought you meant replacing the Earth icon with a strawberry, which would be also cool, but maybe not very clear.

Does it happen after you have paused a track (but not always)? It could it be the same as https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1166/stuck-after-a-track-is-finished.
In my case, there's no playlist (just a single album in the queue), no shuffle, no repeat, all MP3.

@Peach
I think I have had this happened once (I don't "drag" the songs often). It may be related to https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1166/stuck-after-a-track-is-finished, at least the symptoms are the same: the song is stuck.