• Fixed custom palette colors under appearance settings sometimes not applying to some UI elements, such as the menu bar and playlist tabs, until a further edit or restart
• Removed dead RadioBrowser API mirror servers that no longer exist, avoiding failed lookups before falling back when the service is unreachable

Enhancements

• (macOS) Builds are now notarized and signed with the hardened runtime enabled
• (Windows MSVC) Switched from GnuTLS to OpenSSL GIO module

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.26...1.2.27

Linux AppImage, macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-166417390

• Fixed re-loading playlist item metadata for local files not in the collection after editing tags (#2257)

Enhancements

• Replaced deprecated QLibraryInfo::path with QLibraryInfo::paths
• Removed dedicated network access manager for lyrics
• Refactor the playlist items save/reload code
• Refactor the translation loading code

Linux AppImage, macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-165288320

• Fixed a possible deadlock during gapless track transition when an error occurs loading the next track (#2251)
• Fixed the wrong embedded cover being picked for FLAC/Ogg files with multiple untagged ("Other") pictures (#2250)
• Fixed tag edits made in the playlist not being reflected immediately, and restored the previous metadata if saving a tag edit fails (#2239)
• Fixed the taskbar/dock icon not matching the running window on some desktops (#2242)
• Numerous stability, crash-safety and thread-safety fixes throughout the application

Enhancements

• Added recursive expansion of nested .m3u/.m3u8 playlist references so they load as a fully expanded, flat playlist (#2185)
• Added AppImage packaging

Linux AppImage, macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-164844310

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases/tag/1.2.25

• Fixed playback hanging with no error shown when trying to play a track whose file no longer exists on disk (#2232)
• Fixed the tag fetcher dialog showing a generic message instead of the actual error when a Musicbrainz/AcoustID lookup fails
• Hardened Chromaprinter decoding against malformed or oversized files and capped its in-memory PCM usage
• Fixed the context menu using the wrong item when invoked via keyboard in the playlist and smart playlists views (#2219)
• Fixed blurry star rating icons by enabling smooth pixmap scaling (#2220)
• Added F64LE (64-bit float) sample format support for the spectrum analyzer
• Numerous stability, crash-safety and thread-safety fixes throughout the application

Enhancements

• Added more keyboard shortcuts for playlist navigation: jump to last/active playlist and close playlist (#2197)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.23...1.2.24

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-164032938

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

• Fixed editing tags for files on GVFS mounts (SMB, SFTP, MTP) by editing a local temporary copy (#1696)
• Fixed the seekbar treating the mouse as still pressed when playback is stopped while seeking (#2075)
• Fixed the beginning of songs being cut off while the audio device (DAC) is warming up with a new configurable device warm-up delay (default 500 ms)
• Fixed empty available icon size handling for scalable (SVG) icons (#2171)
• Fixed Musixmatch lyrics search
• Removed logging of access tokens
• Numerous stability, crash-safety and thread-safety fixes throughout the application

Enhancements

• All central palette color roles are now configurable under appearance settings, with a dark mode preset (#2063)
• Added System Media Transport Controls support on Windows (#1923)
• Simplified GStreamer pipeline state handling and teardown, playback now starts directly without an intermediate pause
• Turned on Subsonic certificate verification by default
• Apply a default transfer timeout to network requests
• Removed Last.fm import (#1936)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.21...1.2.22

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-163000756

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-162258330

• Defer writing playcount and rating tags for the currently playing MP3 file to prevent playback issues (#1916)
• Fixed volume being reset during gapless playback when the sample rate changes between tracks (#2149)
• Prevent duplicate songs with identical URL (#1341)
• Fixed album shuffle to use the effective album artist
• Fixed collection watcher skipping symlinked directories
• Fixed collection subdirectory path handling when renaming directories
• Fixed songlyrics.com, elyrics.net and letras lyrics parsing
• Fixed SPC (GME) file parsing
• Fixed Tidal session not being cleared on authentication errors
• Fixed global shortcuts to use the first backend that registers successfully
• Prefer the volume UUID when identifying removable devices (#2125)
• Save settings when the session manager requests a commit (#1818)
• Set StartupWMClass in the desktop file to org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry (#1996)
• Fixed two tabs closed when middle clicking on a playlist tab (#2084)
• Allow longer timeout waiting for lyrics
• Fixed scroll wheel changes numeric values (number, disc, year) instead of scrolling the window content in tag editor (#2104)
• Fixed playback stopping on files with embedded subtitle/text streams such as S_TEXT/WEBVTT (#2128)
• Only apply HTTP proxies to streaming, since SOCKS proxies are not supported by GStreamer (#2086)
• Fixed updating device collection path (#2125)
• Numerous stability, crash-safety, memory-safety and detach fixes throughout the application

Enhancements:

• New waveform for seekbar
• New filesystem watcher on Linux and Windows which also detects file changes within directories
• Added radio browser
• Improved MPRIS2 support (TrackMetadataChanged and TrackAdded signals and upgraded playlist track definitions)
• Include release group MBID in ListenBrainz scrobble submission
• FFTW3 fast spectrum plugin for moodbar is now optional
• Removed broken ChartLyrics, lyricfind.com and lololyrics.com lyrics provider
• (Windows|MinGW-W64) Switch back to winpthreads

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-161639853)

• Fixed MPRIS2 Play causing playback to restart if already playing (#1995)
• Fixed incorrect use beginInsertRows() / endInsertRows() of when adding / removing devices (#2021)
• Fixed album cover manager save cover to file not working (#2039)
• Fixed repeat and shuffle button sizes (#1838)
• Fixed MPRIS2 resetting previous played track history
• Fixed Qobuz authentication (#2058)

Enhancements:

• Rewrote Discord RPC with Qt and removed RapidJSON dependency
• New grouping shuffle mode
• Use HTTP POST for AcoustID lookup
• Write MusicBrainz Track Id when completing tags using MusicBrainz
• Added rating filter to the collection (#2054)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases/tag/1.2.19

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-155927835).

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-149676843).

• Avoid re-scan of restored songs unless mtime is changed (#1819)
• Skip existing files when organizing if not overwriting (#1484)
• Fixed cursor highlight disappearing off-screen when using down cursor (#1489)
• Fixed CD playback only working for the first optical drive (#1852)
• Fixed possible race-condition when switching tracks (#1863)
• Fixed possible file descriptor exhaustion by using shared thread pool (#1687)
• Don't automatically sort playlist with the auto sort option before it's fully loaded (#1690)
• Fixed network features stop working after computer suspends and resumes (#1521)
• Fixed crash on exit after Qobuz login
• Added tag editor option to select ID3v2 version (#1861)
• Fixed Qobuz authentication and added automatic credential fetching (#1898)
• Fixed playback stopping after deleting a song from disk via context menu (#1783)
• Added option to restore smart playlists to the defaults (#1848)
• Fixed possible race condition in pipeline destructor (#1875)
• Fixed buffering issue near track end during gapless playback (#1725)
• Fixed duplicate collection entries for the same artist if they have different sort tags (#1899)
• Defer playcount and rating tag writes for currently playing Ogg songs to prevent playback shutter (#1816)
• Fixed tag editing not working for Opus sort tags (#1929)
• Show playlist load errors (#1470)
• Fallback to delete if moving to trash fails (#1679)
• Prefer filenames with "front" or "cover" in the filename for album cover art for songs outside of the collection (#1745)
• Fixed collection enter/return behavior to respect double-click settings (#1691)
• Added tree view mode to files tab (#1922)
• Include .webp in allowed extensions for album covers (#1941)
• Exit gracefully on SIGTERM signal for Unix systems (#1942)
• Optimize the collection scanning process by deferring media file validation from the initial directory scan (#1954)
• Fixed collection scan not finding new directories in the top level collection directory when the mountpoint is restored (#1914)
• Added genre metadata parsing for Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify (#1913)
• Allow editing metadata for stream songs (#1913)
• Optimized collection/playlist filtering
• Added sort tags to collection/playlist filtering (#1966)

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-148515540).

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-146024729).

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.14...1.2.15

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-144341548).

• Fixed showing error dialog minimized when main window is not current active window (#1739)
• Fixed Discord timestamp update when seeking (#1813)
• Fixed CD metadata lookup to respect MusicBrainz rate limiting
• Fixed Tidal Open API cover provider
• (Windows) Fixed device selection with WASAPI2

Enhancements/Other:

• Removed libre.fm support
• Rewrote MusicBrainzClient to use Json instead of XML
• Subsonic will now use cover art from album when available
• Added option to remove "Remastered", etc from song titles for Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify
• Added webm to supported file extensions
• (Windows|MinGW) Added WASAPI2 support
• (Windows) Added experimental exclusive mode for WASAPI2

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.13...1.2.14

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-142063349).

• Fixed playlist alternating row colors no longer working with some styles (#1806)
• Fixed "Open Audio CD" no longer working (#1803)
• Fixed systemtray icon playback status not working with scaling (#1782)
• Fixed build without MusicBrainz (#1799)
• Fixed build without MTP (#1804)

Enhancements:

• Added Discord status text option (#1796)
• Read Vorbis/FLAC "Other" embedded covers if front cover is not available (#1793)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases/tag/1.2.13

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-137814087).

Bugfixes

• Fixed scrobbling for radio streams.
• Fixed CDDA memory leaks.
• Fixed device view CDDA loading (#1676).
• Fixed collection directory editing (#1767).
• Fixed devices sometimes being duplicated in the database.
• Fixed alternating playlist row colors with Windows 11 style.
• Fixed broken file filter for GME formats.
• Fixed collection scanning for GME formats.
• Fixed Chartlyrics.
• Fixed network cache file descriptor leak on lyrics search with workaround for QTBUG-135641.
• Fixed parsing Tidal urls with certain stream URL replies.
• Fixed pixelated window icon on Wayland (#1753).
• Fixed saving collection grouping with special characters in the name (#1758).
• Fixed Spotify token not automatically updated on renewal when playing (#1769).
• (macOS/Windows) Fixed network cache file descriptor leak with patch for QTBUG-135641.
• (Windows|MSVC) Fixed installer to not restart the computer after installing Visual C++ Redistributable.

Enhancements

• Implemented edit tag dialog reset for year, track, disc and rating.
• Added ALAC to supported filetypes for iPods.
• Added CD-TEXT support.
• Added back Genius lyrics.
• Added support for reporting more info to ListenBrainz.
• Added support for BPM, mood and initial key tags.
• Added support for sort tags to collection, playlists and smart playlists.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.11...1.2.12

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-136351172).

• Fixed playlist songs sometimes not updated with new cover.
• Fixed context album cover showing even when it's disabled in the setting (#1744).
• Fixed crash when dragging songs to a closed playlist (#1741).
• Enable startup notify in desktop file.
• (Windows|MSVC) Add experimental support for native ARM64 builds.
• (Windows|MinGW) Fixed crash on exit.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.10...1.2.11

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-129053027).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

• Fixed Discord rich presence showing bogus artist and album.
• Fixed incorrect ID3v2 comment tag.
• (macOS|Windows MSVC) Fixed stuck playback of some streams.

Enhancements:

• Removed Genius lyrics (no longer working properly because of website changes).
• (macOS|Windows MSVC) Added back Spotify

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-126956487).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

• Fixed subsonic parse error (#1719).
• Fixed Deezer cover provider parse error (#1716).
• Fixed last.fm import progress.
• (Windows|MinGW) Switched from winpthreads to win32 threads, winpthreads are no longer working with Qt as of version 6.9 (QTBUG-131892).

Enhancements:

• Added option to disable playbin3.

Bugfixes:

• Added "HI_RES_LOSSLESS" for Tidal quality setting.
• Increased backend settings device lineedit height.
• Possible fix for KGlobalAccel shortcuts sometimes not working.

Enhancements:

• Removed deprecated Tidal username/password login.
• Turned off "Grey out unavailable songs in playlists on startup" by default.
• Added support for reading tags from streams.
• Added tooltips in equalizer, backend and appearance settings.
• Added full tag support for AIFF including embedded covers.
• Use card ID instead of index for ALSA devices.
• Removed KDSingleApplication from 3rdparty.
• Support arbitrarily large EBU R 128 loudness normalization.

New features:

• Added Discord rich presence support.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.7...1.2.8

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/125992905).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

• Fixed strawberry exiting when clicking tray icon.
• Fixed Clementine import script errors.
• Disabled OSD Pretty on Wayland since it's not working properly.

Enhancements

• Only maximize error dialog if Strawberry is the active window (#1627).
• Added QPA Platform Native Interface as optional component.

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-7-121202250).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

• Fixed dragging songs from playlist to queue.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.5...1.2.6

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-6-120189186).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

• Fixed crash when saving playcount or rating to file (#1633).
• Fixed QFile::open failing in unit tests.
• Fixed playlist sequence settings saved to wrong configuration file (#1649).

Enhancements

• Fixed use of deprecated GIO functions with GLib 2.84 and newer.
• (macOS) Added back Sparkle updater to check for new releases.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.4...1.2.5

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-5-120167531).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

• Fixed Spotify songs not being available for scrobbling.
• Fixed leading "A" and "The" articles being skipped for album sort text.
• Fixed thread safety issue when validating playlist songs on startup.
• Fixed filter search not ignoring space after colon when using column based search.
• Fixed KGlobalAccel to use capitalized application name.
• Fixed slash not properly handled when saving a playlist (#1624).
• (Unix) Fixed collection scanner so it ignores special filesystem paths (/sys, /proc, /run, etc) (#1615).
• (Windows) Fixed smart playlist wizard not respecting dark mode with Windows 11 style (#1639).

Enhancements:

• Use XSPF "title" as playlist name when loading and saving playlists (#1624).
• Added support for using album ID when receving album covers for Subsonic songs (#1636).
• Added option for preserving directory structure when trascoding songs (#1637).
• (Windows) Always run MSVC runtime installer to possible fix issues when there is an older runtime installed.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.3...1.2.4

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-4-119687152).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-3-117562480).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.