Recently, when I played music from the same 2-year old Raspberry Pi 3 player (4 TB external USB SSD portable hard drive) with the same settings, the track could still be running but the sound was jammed (buffer took a very long time to play the sound for less than 1/10 of a second then buffered for a long time again). When I tried to stop the player, the app froze. I had to turn off the power on the player and turn it on again to restart the app. In addition, when I reloaded the music from the hard drive, it took much much longer than before and sometimes not all music were reloaded from the hard drive.
I updated the app to the most current version (July 2022). Prior to this version, everything was pretty smooth. Was my problem to do with the current version update or it could be other issues?