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@mike_jones I've been around since 2021, and Jonas has been updating Strawberry consistently. Although Strawberry was conceived a fork of Celementine and Amarok, at this point, it's safe to say that the software has evolved into its own entity, given the number of functions added through the years.

In other words: Yeah, I agree. Is quite a bargain considering the hard work invested.

@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.

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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

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@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.