Thanks to you both for your thoughts - I didn't know how to view debug
logs when running via the systray - that was a great help.

I'm running AVG anti-virus and behind a hardware firewall - all files
are on local disk.

But it looks like the gaps are being caused by the iTunesUpdate
plugin...

When viewing the debug log I noticed entries saying that iTunesUpdate
couldn't connect to iTunes - these occurred between songs at the time
of the long pauses in playback. Disabling the iTunesUpdate plugin
caused the gaps to go away and playback to revert to normal.

So that got me thinking...

And, as usual, it's a case of operator error - I THOUGHT I was running
SlimServer at login but I noticed that it was set to run at system
start. I'm not sure when this changed - maybe at my last SlimServer
upgrade. Switching the systray to run at login (with iTunesUpdate
re-enabled) resolved the issues and playback is normal again.

The iTunesUpdate plugin can't communicate directly with iTunes when
running as a service at system start - that's a documented limitation.
It might be nice if it stopped running if it's in an invalid
configuration but if I'd followed the instructions I would have avoided
the issue in the first place.

Thanks again for your inputs.


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