Greetings, I'm new to the Forum.

[MysticDog]

My Christmas music is also in my library, but not something I'd want played at random.

sad

Sad is editing what someone says before "quoting" them.  Not cool.

-MD

 What's wrong with Christmas music ??!! 

Nothing. I  add it into my playlist from November thru January, and usually for a couple weeks in summer. (Christmas  in July...).  And its all I  listen to in December. It's just not part of my playlist 24/7/365.

I shortened up my playlist and things work much better. An hourly script checks how many songs are in the current queue and if it's below a certain number it adds a hundred songs. I never have more than a couple hundred songs in my playlist, and everything runs smoother. My MPD clients, the web interfaces, and even the snapcast server / client.

I guess there is an upper limit to the reasonable playlist length. Who'd a thunk? ?

-MD