Song is sometimes skipped after several seconds

[matejdro]

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Describe the bug

I'm experiencing a weird issue, where sometimes, when Strawberry switches to a next song in the playlist, it will only play this song for a second or two and then switch to the next song. It sounds very jarrying as you hear the end of the song 1, then the first seconds of song 2 and then immediately start of the song 3. There is no crossfade between songs 2 and 3.

It seems pretty random and not song dependent (after this happens, I can go back to the song 2 and it plays without a problem).

To Reproduce

1. Play a playlist in "Shuffle all" mode
2. Wait

Expected behavior

Strawberry should not skip any songs after only several seconds.

Screenshots:

My crossfade options, if that helps:

System Information:

• Operating system: Linux
• Strawberry Version: Strawberry 1.2.10

Additional context

I couldn't get strawberry to print out any meaningful logs. Even running strawberry --verbose will only print out Loading cached moodbar data line whenever song changes. Is there any other way I can gather more data for this issue?

Also, usually I'm playing songs of a networked drive (rclone mounted sftp mount). Could this contribute to the issue? There are no read errors or anything like that visible.

[jonaski]

What audio format, and what version of GStreamer?

[matejdro]

gstreamer 1.26.1-1.1 at the moment, but I'm regularly updating it so it's usually the latest version.

I can't say for sure about audio formats, because I have mix of them, but vast majority of my library are flac files, so it's definitely happening for flac to flac transitions, but I am not sure if it solely Flac.

[Tabinol]

I have a similar issue, but I don't know if this is the same cause. I listen my playlist in shuffle mode and sometimes, the next song starts in the middle or at the end, not from the beginning. I have the same problem if I use the Flatpak or the native version.

Strawberry 1.2.10, Fedora 42