Playback Error: An error occurred loading items to play

Server Version#: 1.40.0.7998
Player Version#: 4.123.2
PMS.log attached. This was the only logfile with relevant timestamps for the error event.
Plex Media Server.log (1.9 KB)

I have a library defined (“Music”), with audio files (.MP3) stored in a root directory (D:\Music) defined in the library. Within Plex Web App, both from the Server as well as from a local client, within the Folders view
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every attempt to play an audio file located in the root directory by clicking the ‘play’ triangle located on the album art icon results in a playback error:
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However, if I click the selection circle
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This error occurs for every audio file located in a root directory of a library, and never occurs for any audio file located not in a root directory.

Please note the workaround described above, but if a solution can be coded into Plex Web App or Plex Server, that would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Same error reported in 2020 without resolution: Single MP3's in root of music folders won't play on PC Win 10 desktop, using FOLDER view. "Playback Error - An error occurred loading items to play."

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