The player will run V E R Y S L O W L Y with strace, so be extra patient. The log file it produces will be enormous. The "rwm" command stands for "readable/writable music" partition, which is the biggest place to save a big log file.

Since the whole idea is to capture an "strace" log of the player, it is not useful to run the player without strace, because doing that won't give us the log.

So if you cannot get it working under strace, then forget about it. It just might not be feasible.

"strace" stands for "system-call tracer". It's a program that installs itself between the application ("player") and the Linux kernel (operating system), and records every single event where the application invokes any kernel service. So it's a great way to see what a program is really doing under the hood, especially if the program is crashing at some point.

Cheers