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  • Announcements regarding our community

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    jonasJ

    Version 1.2.23 (2026.07.09):

    Bugfixes Fixed disabled widgets not appearing greyed out when a custom color set is in use Fixed custom palette colors being selectable with the Breeze style, which doesn't support them Fixed tab order in appearance settings Fixed exclusive mode being selectable in backend settings when not supported by the current output Fixed the fader not resuming after being paused (#2204) Fixed metadata (title, artist, album) from a radio stream track carrying over to the next track when its own tags are empty Fixed a possible division by zero in the FHT spectrum analyzer Fixed notifications not working on macOS by replacing the deprecated NSUserNotification API with UserNotifications Fixed a possible hang on exit on macOS when a device lister was still running Fixed Windows System Media Transport Controls image and timeline handling (#2208) Numerous stability, crash-safety and thread-safety fixes throughout the application Enhancements Style changes under appearance settings are now applied immediately, without requiring a restart Added support for native dark mode on macOS and Windows Added support for sorting radio browser search results by clicking column headers (#2200)

    macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-163325193

  • A place to talk about whatever you want

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    @jonas

    Dunno if this "sort tags" thing has been implemented yet, I use the latest version available on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. (Seems to be the latest release 1.2.19)

    But if it is, I'd like to see the sort name in the list if using the sort name for alphabetizing. It's mentally not working in a list of names to see "Billy Idol" but it's sorted as "Idol, Billy" in the middle of I-starting names.

  • Any issues or problems

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    jonasJ

    @zayyad
    The song needs to be a local file in the collection, make sure there is a vinyl icon next to the Source column in the playlist, it indicates that it is in the collection.

  • Ideas from you

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    Hi! I'd like to request a configuration option for the separator that's used when displaying multi-value metadata tags. I use MusicBrainz Picard to write multiple values to the Artist tag when a song has multiple contributing artists for my collection, rather than storing them as a single string (for varying reasons). Strawberry currently appears to display these values separated by a space. An example, where you have Artist A and Artist B stored as separate values in the Artist tag, it's displayed as:

    Artist A Artist B

    whereas I think it might be desirable to display as the following options:

    Artist A, Artist B

    Artist A • Artist B (similar to how Navidrome or Symfonium separate multi-value tags)

    It's by no means an issue with functionality but I think it would be a nice QoL improvement, allowing users to customise the separator to their cosmetic preference. This extends beyond the Artist tag and could apply to Genre, Composer, etc.

    It would also contribute to consistency across implementations/applications. Discord's Rich Presence for example uses the parsed metadata strings from Strawberry directly so multi-value tags currently appear separated by a space exactly as they are in Strawberry. Many other music players instead display multi-value tags using a comma or bullet point, so allowing users to change separator characters could open that door for more visual consistency should it be desired.

    Thanks for your consideration!!! Lmk if screenshots or further clarification is needed 🙂

  • For developers

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    While I'm waiting for the Strawberry remote control see this post to be accepted as part of the player I have developed a very basic android remote app.
    The app lets you view song information and control playback of the Strawberry Music player (play, pause, next, previous) from your Android device over your local network.

    I'm looking for beta testers before submitting the app to the Google Play Store. It's a bit of a chicken or the egg as there will be nothing to test until the functionality has been implemented in the player and once it's there you cannot control it without the android remote.

    If you're interested, please reply here or send me a message and I'll send you the opt-in link.

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    @str008
    Sent you username and password in private message.

  • Translating to different languages

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    @ank99
    I didn't see any requests for it in Crowdin, but I've added them now so they should be available right now.

  • General music discussion

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    rlkeeneyR

    I have very eclectic taste in music. I like some of it allScreenshot at 2025-07-02 05-46-40.png . Here are sm stats from last week.

  • Got a question? Ask away!

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    @paul2berry
    The played track history (clicking previous track button) will reset if you stop playback, or do you mean it's resetting while still playing?

  • Blog posts from individual members

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    Hi all, I searched the forums, but couldn't find a match.

    First off, I'm running Debian 12.6 "Bookworm" KDE DE. In Strawberry, every time I select 'Show in file browser' in the context menu it opens up Easytag instead of the Dolphin file manager!

    Any reason why that would be?

    Thanks in advance!