It is working now. I had changed some settings on the scrobblers and misunderstood the settings I was changing.
I thought a local file would scribble anything on my hard drive. Apparently, it only scrobbles files I play that are not in my collection. I never do this with Strawberry, and it was the only one selected. I turned on Collection and turned off Local Files.
Strawberry stopped three times in the last 24.
Could there be something connected with the playlist list causing this? It is a very large playlist.
Linux Mint 22.1
Strawberry 1.2.13 from flatpak
I have all three scroblers connected, and none of them have worked since 8 August 2025.
I have reset the connections to the scobblers to no avail.
Strawberry stopped two times today, about 15 minutes apart.
I just upgraded to Version 1.2.12. I'm waiting to see what happens now.
@jonas said in Continuous Buffering:
@rlkeeney
Try setting low watermark to 0.10 and buffer duration to 8000
This did not work. It stopped twice in the last 24 hours.
@jonas Done.
I have it looping on a long play and running 24/7.
@jonas Strawberry stopped playing again with the buffering set to 0ms.
@jonas said in Continuous Buffering:
@rlkeeney
Is it local files or streams? If local files, do you play them from the local HD, or remotely? And what audio format is it?
It is local files. I never stream.
They are played from an internal SATA hard drive.
The audio format is MP3.
I play MP3s using smart playlists 99% of the time. The only time I don't use a playlist is when I am playing something new and unrated.
I have all three scrobblers enabled, along with the cover search, although I really don't need this, as I rarely look at a cover.
Pretty much everything else is disabled, including the analyzer and mood bar, which I see as useless.
@poilu You are obviously paying much closer attention to it than I am. Strawberry is almost always playing in the background, unless I am doing something like watching a video. When I'm deeply immersed in a project, I can lose track of time, and it won't register with me that it has stopped playing for a long time. So, I usually do not know when it stops.
It always stops on a track change and may be connected with the buffering issue, which I mentioned in another post. The continuous buffering also happens on a track change.
I configured the Strawberry buffering to "0ms," which seems like it would turn buffering off.
@jonhd Nothing in the logs. It ran 49 minutes, then went into continuous buffering.
@jonhd I just started 'journalctl -f', hopefully this will catch something.
I have updated to the latest version of Strawberry, and I am still getting the buffering issue. It will play for hours and stop. At the bottom of the screen, on the status line, it says: Buffering 0%. The number never increases from zero. If I click stop and then play, it will take off and play for a few more hours and stop again.
@jonas Thanks, it never occurred to me that apt would be installing an old version. I installed the latest version from Flatpak, and so far it seems to be working.
I had to go through everything, reset my configuration settings, and reimport all of my collection. Storing playcounts and ratings in the tag has just paid for itself.
I have a large playlist that I play 24/7, and it is hung every morning and once or twice during the day. No messages, nothing. It just becomes unresponsive. I kill it and restart it, and it plays where it left off, but then hangs again later in a different place.
Update: Strawberry is still hanging for no apparent reason.
I recently switched my OS to Linux Mint LMDE 22.1. Since then, Strawberry hangs. It is completely unresponsive, and I have to kill it. Once it is restarted, it behaves normally until it hangs again. It seems to be random. I have started Strawberry from the command line, hoping to receive an error message. No joy. It just stops.
Strawberry Version 1.0.23
I have very eclectic taste in music. I like some of it all
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