hi, thank you for your test.
the situation I'm describing seems to be a bit different from that you reproduced:
- it is very rare that it locks playing a short loop, normally it happens only when changing track, so the current one stops and the other one stays 'buffering...' indefinitely until I kill the process.
- changing track position doesn't ever cause it, only switching tracks.
I couldn't ever find a certain sequence of things that would consistently reproduce this, it happens consistently but in a very random way, so if you never noticed this during regular usage of cue's, I have a feeling you won't be able to reproduce it by doing a very specific sort of things. It might be OK for a couple of hours and then crash or it can happen twice in a short time.
What I believe is consistent every time it happens is changing track repeatedly over a certain period of time, not exactly doing it very fast before MC has any chance of responding but more like listening to 5 seconds of each track and skipping to the next 5 times or more(say, when you're listening trough a new album you just got). Could happen after you've run through one album or after many...
I *think* that if during this 'track browsing process' I occasionally press the 'stop' button I can reduce the chances of this occurring, but this is not scientific. It's as if it had a maximum (random) number of track changes (between stops), after which it crashes, but doesn't seem to be directly related to how fast you do it.
I think it's more sensitive to using the 'next' button than selecting tracks from the playlist (not confirmed).
I have never been able to connect this with high cpu loads or short memory, happens no matter how many programs I'm running at that time and in two computers totally different in hardware and with completely different sets of applications running in the background.
All files are in a local hard drive and my playback settings are (for this machine):
wave out (happens with asio too)
no dsp whatsoever
do not play silence is off
use gapless for albums on
switch tracks is gapless
seek is smooth-fast
stop is fadeout-fast
I think the buffering time has no effect on it but I could try increasing it and see...
hope this helps
thank you for your time, everyone