I haven’t tested myself but from a forum search seems quite clear and second link also shows that only Kodi SMB is impacted, Kodi NFS and all Kernel mounts are working.
I have this very same issue (WMA files over a SMB share make Kodi 18 crash; with latest OSMC release from November 2019). I thought that’s a problem with the new music library thingies from Kodi 18 and some of my music files and didn’t bother to investigate – but now I did.
It works without a problem, if you mount the SMB share via /etc/fstab instead of via Kodi, as is explained here: Configuring fstab based Samba share mounts
Apparently, Kodi’s SMB-Code has some serious bugs in it.
Many thanks for your help. The NAS is Synology with the latest software.
More research gave me the following results:
Playback from a local storage: OK
Playback from NAS, mounted from OS via NFS: OK
Playback from NAS, mounted from OS via SMB: OK
Playback from NAS, mounted from Kodi via NFS: OK
Playback from NAS, mounted from Kodi via SMB: Error - sad face
Changing SMB client version in Kodi makes no difference. Log files are here: https://paste.osmc.tv/bocudaniye
I will use kernel moun…