Recently I was having issues with access to the USB SSD drive I had been running on my RPI4 with the current version of MoOde Player. I tried several different attempts at fixing it, including a few suggestions from the forum, and it started working; though I am not sure why. It was formatted to NTFS, I reformatted it to Ext4 and reloaded all my music (~11k songs). When everything was working I could write, delete, and make changes to the drive remotely using WinSCP.
Now I have a new issue that may be somehow related. When I play my music it sounds as though it is constantly being interrupted. It's hard to describe in writing, but it would play the music and it would sound as though there was a momentary interrupt (or skip in old LP nomenclature) which would happen every couple of seconds. I reformatted a USB stick drive to NTFS, loaded some music and it plays fine. I plug the SSD back in and it still has the same issue. I've verified there aren't any settings that are obvious that would mess it up and since the USB stick drive plays fine I do not believe it is the sound card that could be causing it (HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro). I also tried the other USB3 port to ensure it wasn't a port issue. Before I go into trying more in-depth troubleshooting, are there any suggestions as to what to check?
Is it possible that the Ext4 format is causing some issue, though it is a preferred format for RPI? Will setting up NTFS FUSE to run the SSD formatted to NTFS be a better solution? Also, will I reacquire my rights so I don't run into what I ran into before (unable to make any changes due to rights issues)?
Before I go doing something that will muddy the waters further, I am open to suggestions and or comments. Thanks
