Posts made by Jellby

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.

Well, not immediately, but sure enough it happened now. Once again, it happened after I had paused a track, but I don't see anything strange in the terminal:

12:02:12.923 DEBUG MainWindow:1366                  Song changed to "John Coltrane" "The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings" "Impressions (C)"
12:02:12.925 DEBUG Player:733                       Playing song "Impressions (C)" QUrl("file:///media/user/FREEAGENT/Jazz/John Coltrane - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings/17 - Impressions (C).mp3") position 0
12:02:12.925 DEBUG GstEnginePipeline:751            1 event latency
12:02:13.815 DEBUG PlaylistBackend:330              Saving playlist 1
12:11:25.654 DEBUG GlobalShortcutsBackendKDE:216    Key QKeySequence("Media Play") pressed.
12:29:06.436 DEBUG GlobalShortcutsBackendKDE:216    Key QKeySequence("Media Play") pressed.
12:29:06.437 DEBUG GstEnginePipeline:751            1 event latency

The track in question is 15 minutes long. The first "Media Play" is the pause event, which happened not near the beginning or end of the track. The second "Media Play" is the resume event. Some minutes after that, the track ended, and the player is stuck without advancing to the next track in the playlist or showing anything else in the terminal. The time it was paused was enough to trigger "screen energy saving", but I'm not sure that has anything to do.

For the record, I've been running Strawberry from command line for a while now (a few weeks), to see if there's any message when this happens. As anyone could expect, it hasn't happened since. I'm just writing this in the hope that by doing so, the problem will appear again immediately after I post it

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/).

1. When customizing the pretty OSD (Notifications tab), the draggable "OSD Preview" obscures the preview shown with the "Preview" button. One can drag the former around to see the latter, but that looks like a clumsy interface.

2. I'd like to add extra fields, like number of tracks in the playlist and track position in the playlist, or time remaining in the playilst.

The gap may be inserted during compression/encoding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback#Compression_artifacts

I guess this is the same: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/776/prevent-automatic-collection-update

And more annoyingly (to me), when one of these collection updates is going on, all my songs appear as never having been played, even though I can see that the in the .db file they appear with the correct data. This means that if I play one of the songs in the collection (e.g. by loading a file from command line), its "last played" and "times played" data will most likely not be updated. So far, once the update is completed, everything seems to work fine, but I am fearing the day when such an update will wipe all the stats for no good reason...

I have my collection in an external disk, which is sometimes plugged and sometimes not. I have disabled "Update the collection when Strawberry starts" and "Monitor the collection for changes", whenever I change the files I'll do a manual rescan/update.

However, when I restart Strawberry, it will run a collection update (I see "Updating collection" in the status bar), which takes a while. Is there something I'm missing? Is there a way to avoid this?

Strawberry 1.0.9 on Ubuntu 22.04.