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Just installed version 1.1.1, Build 1018 (20090309144332). Still exactly the same issue, very disappointed and frustrated. I like everything about Songbird but it is unusable for me like this.

MechanicalMind - Haven't found the settings in Squeezecenter to change optimisation - can you let me know where they are? You never know, playing with them may help - but I'm not willing to compromise the performance of my Squeezeboxes - I'd prefer to tweak caching on the Songbird side - hopefully that is or will be possible.

Cheers,
Sprydle

Problem solved! I deleted my library and re-imported - everything plays!

I remembered that about 4 months or so ago I replaced my NAS server, I think the library that SB had was from the old NAS - same songs, same directory structure, just wrong location - SB couldn't find the songs. The error message is a tad vague to make trouble-shooting easy, could use some clarification.

This makes me happy, but the caching, stuttering issue remains - which doesn't.

Is there any way I can change the cacheing settings to remove the stuttering?

Additionally - have just noticed this issue s not a FLAC issue at all - I get exactly the same behaviour with MP3's.

Hi there - thanks for getting back to me.

There's nothing odd about my FLAC's - all other players play them just fine - I use Squeezeboxes as my primary players - they have no problems with them.

Most I ripped from CD's using EAC and Lame, but some were ripped using Toast and exported to FLAC. They are all separate FLAC's, one per track.
Cog plays them without issue.

I have done a bit more testing with interesting, though perhaps confusing results.

If I navigate to a song by selecting "Library" go through Genre drilling down to the song, then double click it - I get the error I described in my first post, however if I just do "file" then "open file" and select the file it plays.

Not completely without issue though. If I select a file on my NAS server it stutters initially and then sporadically stutters throughout the song - a caching issue perhaps? It's not my network or my NAS server as I regularly have 3 Squeezeboxes in different rooms playing different songs without any stuttering whatsoever.

If I open a song from the hard-drive on my Mac where Songbird is located, there is no stuttering but what is interesting is that once the end of the song is reached - the pop-up error rears it's ugly head. This appears to be due to SB trying to play the next song in the library list since it shows the artist details for the next song immediately after finishing playing.

Hope this helps. As I said before, I really like what you are trying to do. Good luck with it!