@mike_jones not sure how you can call it a bargain. If you actually pay to keep the player updated on windows or mac it might be the most expensive consumer media player on market at $60/yr and @jonas doesn't event take feature requests. I like the player a lot but the pricing is wild.

@mike_jones Try using Rating < 0.5 instead of Rating = 0 stars. I have found that Rating = 0 stars does not work for me.

@mike_jones Update: after another 45 minutes, it's up to 5% so not completely stuck, just very slow.

I have had luck using touch to update the modified date of the artist folder. When I invoke "Update changed collection folders", it then seems to scan all albums and song within.

@mike_jones Yes! I tried out Strawberry but had to abandon it because I couldn't get the sort of smart playlists that I'm used to. Similar to you, I have a smart playlist that says: 3 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 years - Randomize and give me 30 4 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 months - Randomize and give me 30 5 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 weeks - Randomize and give me 30 Unrated tracks that haven't been played in the last month - Randomize and give me 30 None of the tracks have "[Turn off]" in the description. Winamp accomplished this (without limiting the # of tracks per pull) by allowing you to edit the search string as a literal text string, and accepting parenthesis. So my WinAmp smart shuffle would look like (([Rating] = 5 and [Last_Played] > 14) or ([Rating] = 4 and [Last_Played] > 60) or ([Rating] = 3 and [Last_Played] > 730) or ([Rating] IS NULL and [Last_Played] > 30)) and [Comment] NOT LIKE '%[Turn Off]%' MediaMonkey accomplishes this by allowing you to to create smart playlists similar to what Strawberry currently offers, but then you can also create a smart playlist that says "include these other playlists." So each one of those bullet points would be a smart playlist on its own (we'll just say they're named 3Star, 4Star, 5Star, and Unrated), and then you would have a smart playlist that says "Tracks that appear in playlists: [3Star, 4Star, 5Star, Unrated]" I generally tuck the "support playlists" in a folder out of sight, but really enjoy the flexibility of the MM model. I am currently limping along with MediaMonkey in WINE because none of the native Linux players appear to provide this sort of playlist functionality.

@mike_jones I Just tested adding a SMB drive on macOS 15.1.1 Sequoia, and it works fine here. Make sure Network volumes is added for Strawberry under Security / Files & Folders [image: 2e44ef37-70c6-4f22-be1c-08c5c7d721e2-image.png]

@jonas Thanks. I tried that, didn't work, but it did cause me to wonder if there was something about the track (that I wasn't previously familiar with) that might be causing the problem. I put the output settings back to the wrapper sink, tried to play another track, and...it worked. The track that had me convinced something was wrong just had a significant period of silence at the beginning for some reason. Complete pilot error. Mea maxima culpa.