joegorin wrote: 
> The Raspberry Pi was started a few weeks ago. It uses the Max2Play
> "operating system" and I recall using the latest stable LMS at the time.
> It is controlled by "Orange Squeeze" on a tablet. I have tried to find
> the version number for LMS but I have not been able to figure out how to
> do that.
Since the system as created only a few weeks agoi I presume it is using
the latest max2play and a Pi3.
I also assume the album track are on a sdcard and not a USB disk drive
or USB stick.

> The tracks are part of a CD that was encoded into mp3 format using EAC
> at 160 kbps, variable bit rate, perhaps around 2014. It is not encoded
> using a .cue file; it is configured as separate tracks.

When playing tracks LMS will start download of nexct track before
currently playing track has ended. IIRC This download starts usually
about 10sec before end of the playing track - I can't remember how LMS
calculates when to start - probably due to buffer size.
Since short track play OK on LM S and squeezelitre - I think your
problem is specific to your setup which could include alsa & buffer
setting on squeezelite.

The MP3 files will be very small.  SDcard and USB stick can be slow and
if LMS has overlap disk reading and processing may be slow - it may be
that LMS cannot get the data for the next track -read in, processed and
then sent to player before the currently playing track has finished as
currently track is so small.  The fact that one folder works and another
doesn't might imply that files in "faulty" folder are very fragmented
requiring multiple sector reads (i.e. cached readaheads don't help) 
whereas the working folder tracks are contiguous and cached readaheads
make reading the file quicker.  If tracks  are on sdcard then class of
card may be significant.

Any message in server.log ?
If no then enable player.source to INFO as this will give info about
track starts & stops - the downside is that logging will do more i/o to
card/disk which may exacerbate the problem.


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