Playback of opus files created from yt-dlp stopping unexpectedly

[s38b35M5]

When playing back tracks downloaded using yt-dlp using the -x switch, playback will pause often if I am using my PC. If I just let the music play, it tends to play without trouble. When the music pauses, the playback controls appear to stay in play mode:

And simply clicking the "Pause" button resumes playback. If it had fully stopped, I would expect the button to change to the "Play" button icon.

My library is mostly flac/ogg/mp3, but with yt-dlp, the default is opus, and renaming to ogg (or using ffmpeg with -c:a copy to ogg) creates a file that cannot be indexed by Strawberry.

Anyone have suggestions for away to get the player to play without pausing?

[s38b35M5]

I don't want to say this isn't important, but I did manage to convert the opus files to OGG:320k and avoid the skipping. Not sure why OPUS files are so sensitive in Strawberry, though.